The Electoral Commission has said its results transmitted electronically were tampered with leading to a delay in the release of presidential results of last week's election.
According to a Deputy Chairperson of the Commission, Georgina Opoku Amankwaa, the figures kept changing anytime they were keyed into the system. They therefore had to completely abandon the electronic transmission system, she said in an interview Wednesday.
The elections management body kept the nation on tenterhooks several hours after polls ended on Wednesday without a single certified presidential results.
In the absence of the certified results came declarations of victory by the NPP and cruising to victory pronouncements by the NDC. The media also announced provisional results from polling stations and collation centres, creating a chaotic atmosphere for supporters who did not know which of the figures and declarations to believe.
After almost 12 hours after the polls, the EC chair Mrs Charlotte Osei organised a press conference claiming their electronic transmission system had been "compromised" for which reason they had to rely on manual system of transmission.
Not a single constituency results was certified to be announced at the time of the press conference.
Simultaneously, the EC's twitter handle reported that the EC website had been hacked and called on the hackers to "respect the integrity and independence of the EC."
After 72 hours the EC Chair finally declared the results of the elections and announced the opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo as president elect. Not long after the declaration, the Deputy Communications Director of the EC Yusif Ayuba denied assertion the EC system was hacked but admitted there were challenges with it. He did not exactly say what the challenges were.
His boss, a deputy Commissioner Georgina Opoku Amankwaa, has however explained the challenges in an interview on GTV Wednesday night.
"Our electronic transmission was not even coming. You key in, and the figures will change. You key in and the figures will change. Then we said no, we can't go on with this. Let's abandon it. "The good thing was that was not the primary source. So it was good for us to abandon it.
"The only problem was that it caused us some delay. We could have done that much earlier than what we did," she stated.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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THE BATTLE IS THE LORD ALWAYS.ITS THE LORD GOD WHO WON THE ELECTION FOR THE NATION BUT NOT THE VOTERS.THANK YOU LORD ALMIGHTY.GLORY BE THY NAME
I see that both EC and NDC were using the same software; But the NDC was soo D.U.M.P that they were still entering figures and winning in their eyes when the EC had detected that the software did not accept figures which where not on the pink sheet and so they stopped.Heheheheheeheheheheh, gyi.m.i.i.i.i
I very much enjoyed reading your piece. Excellent write up. You said it all. God bless you and we give Glory to God Almighty!
But mahama is bold oooooo, so he was still thinking of winning this election after choping allllllllll the money with mahama and friends? See his white handkerchief and his whiskey dark shades toooo. Usain d.e.a.d go.at that oooooo, hweeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!
Wikileaks should tell us who actually worn the USA elections first. Wikileaks indeed.
Oooo so this the IT system that failed the NDC...Changing the results in the system...that is why they were still saying they are cruising to victory even after seeing the pink sheets that they were losing...they knew that had compromised the IT system... )tweaa..God is not dead!!!
Can some body help me? was it an act of nature that EC software did not work and the same time NDC software also failed to work. Was there a connection for the spontaneous system failure. So 3nka y3 te ha yi ara 3na EC declare ndc winners. See how president Mahama was poised to jubilate b4 they told him he had lost cause their " I.T" failed them.And which "I.T " was that?
I hope you remember the transmission machine kennedy Agyepong bought to hack election results. 1, 000, 000 plus votes are still not ascertain where those votes come from. Is a lesson to stubborn NDC leaders who doesn't listen anything
Mark my words, wikileaks will come with surprise that will shake Ghana to its very foundation!!!
NPP government must setup a committee of enquiry to go deep into EC present and past records and bring corrupt EC officials to face the laws of the land. If last election NDC claimed they won the 2012 election just over 300,000 then can someone tell where from the 1,000,000+ votes NPP votes came from to win 2016 election. I watched the EC chairperson facial expression suggested she was under much external pressure from NDC.