Massive turnout @ polls

Daily Graphic, Mon. Dec. 08/08

From the Korle-Klottey Constituency, Rebecca Quaicoe Duho reports that voting was delayed for 20 minutes at the Public Works Department (PWD) Castle polling station.
When the polls finally began at 7.20 am a total of 260 people had voted as at 10 am and the Presiding Officer, Mr. Richard Mingle in an interview said a total of 1,103 persons including Former President Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, were expected to cast their vote.
According to him the voting materials which arrived at 7 am was short of Absent Voters’ List and the Enumeration’s Forms but he said that was not going to cause any problem since they could rely on the list from the political parties polling agents to cross-check when people arrived with ID cards but could not find their names in the voters register.
At the Art Centre Polling Station ‘A’ and ‘B’ where a total of 2,221 people were expected to exercise their franchise, a long queue was observed as people patiently waited for their turn to vote.
Speaking to the Presiding Officer of the polling station ‘A’, Mr Chris Addo-Adodo he said voting started at 7:15 am and as at 10: 35 a total of 321 had voted and every thing was moving on smoothly.
The Officer at the polling station ‘B’, Mr Frank Nene-Yullie also said so far everything was moving on smoothly.
He said a total of 300 people had voted at 10:40 am and he was hopeful that everything would be as peaceful as it started.
He was observed busily sorting out people who had misplaced their ID cards and also those who had transferred their votes to the centre.
At the Cristal City Temporal Booth in Adabraka, bollot papers were brought in after 8 am as anxious voters had queued since dawn to cast their votes.
The ballots papers were being counted before voting as at 8:12 am when the Daily Graphic got to scene.
A voter at the center told the Daily Graphic that a wrong register was brought to the centre at 7 am and it had to be taken back resulting in the delay.