The Supreme Court has declared the ongoing

The Supreme Court has declared the ongoing
processes of the district level election
unconstitutional.
Friday's decision compels the country's
elections governing body, the Electoral
Commission to suspend the processes of the
elections which were scheduled for March, this
year.
The Court ordered the commission to start all
over again CI 85; a legal instrument which seeks
to demarcate electoral boundaries for the
district elections in 2015.
In a unanimous decision by seven judges, the
Supreme Court said the current process was not
grounded in any law.
Lawyer for the Electoral Commission James
Quarshie Idun has had a difficult time
convincing the court on the basis on which the
E.C disqualified an applicant Benjamin Eyi
Mensah.
The aggrieved aspirant then charged to court
and has with the ruling obtained a favourable
result.
Patronage at local level elections have usually
been low. But with increased advertisement on
radio and TV, it was expected that turn-ohut this
year would be better.
From the ruling, low voter turn-outs would be
the least of the E.C's concerns.
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