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EC deputy Chairperson in charge of Corporate Services, Dr. Bossman Asare and Samuel Tettey, in charge of Operations have hinted that a mass voters' registration exercise will soon be cancelled in Ghana.

According to them, the registration exercise is a waste of resources and also unbeneficial to the country.

They spoke with host Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo'.

The EC Chairpersons noted that the Electoral Management Body (EMB) is making arrangements to ensure persons who turn 18 years after the ongoing registration exercise and have Ghana card will go directly to their district offices to have their names registered in the new voters' register.

Speaking to the host, Mr. Samuel Tettey insisted the mass registration exercise ''doesn't help the nation. It's a waste of resources and it also puts a lot of stress on the EMB".

He intimated that "the Commission is looking at a situation where we will avoid that mass registration and because of the Ghana card, we will interact with the NIA so that any Ghanaian who turns 18 years and has the Ghana card; we register you. So, as at when you turn 18 years, you get to our district office to be registered instead of that mass registration for every four or eight years or whatever . . . There will come a time that the mass registration will be a thing of the past''.

Mr. Bossman Asare also added that the ongoing new voters' registration exercise will the last of its kind in the country's electoral system and as a result there will be no other new voters' register besides the one the Commission is compiling this year.