A lot of people of voting age, have converged at various registration centres in the country to register their names in the biometric voter registration list as today May, 5 2012 happens to be the last day of registration.
The exercise begun on Saturday March 24 and after 40 days of a fairly successful exercise, Statistics available by the end of the third phase of the exercise has it that about 10.5 million prospective voters have had their names registered and out of these about 8,121 cases of multiple registration involving 2,864 individuals had also been detected.
The Chairman of the EC, Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, had made it explictly clear before the beginning of the exercise that any prospective voter who registered more than once would not have his name in the electoral roll for five years.
Additionally, the offender would have his or her name deleted from the roll, be fined, sentenced to a jail term or both.
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