Acting Director of Elections for the National Democratic Congress, Bede Ziedeng, has revealed that the party is making plans to collate 2020 election results electronically.
According to him, this will afford the NDC the opportunity to gather first hand information on the collation of the results.
There had been reports that the NDC could not collate its own results in the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections so as to compare with that of the Electoral Commission.
The move is said to have crippled the NDC’s effort to know how then incumbent President John Mahama was faring in the polls.
But speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia programme, he explained that the party resorted to manual collation during the 2016 elections, which did not help.
"Though there were plans to electronically collate the results, our system crushed and that we could not do the electronic collating . . . That does not mean we did not collate our results," he added.
He indicated that they have all their collated results which indeed is helping them to access the shortfall, as they prepare for elections 2020.
"But, like the NPP, we are putting in measures to have to use the best technology to have the 2020 election results collated," he added.
Contrary to earlier reports that the NDC failed to collate its 2016 election results, it has emerged that the largest opposition party employed the services of a private institution to collate results of the 2016 general elections to the detriment of party structures.
According to NDC’s Acting Director of Elections, Bede Ziedeng the results that was collated by the system used by the private company crushed compelling the party to revert to the manual system which didn’t really help matters.
Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Thursday, Mr Ziedeng denied claims that the NDC did not collate the 2016 results.
“Unfortunately, it was this infrastructure which crushed soon after it was deployed therefore failed to provide any result for the party and this was alluded to by the Prof. Kwesi Botchwey Committee report. But that does not mean that no results were collated, eventually the party had to fall on the National Election Directorate for the collation of the results.
“On 8th December 2016, the late former Vice President Amissah Arthur sent for the collated results from the election directorate, the collated results of 115 constituencies which was ready by then were delivered to him by the directorate.”
Mr Mahama, then flag bearer of the NDC, lost by more than 9% of total votes to the NPP’s Nana Akufo-Addo.
Akufo-Addo obtained a staggering 5,716,609 of total votes cast in the 2016 elections, representing 53.84%, to snatch the Presidency from John Mahama, who secured 4,713,277 votes (44.40%).
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THE NDC IS LYING. THEY DID'T COLLATE ANY RESULTS. THIS IS JUST A FACE SAVING GIMMICK. IN THIS MODERN WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY WHO WILL EMBARK ON SUCH AN IMPORTANT TASK ELECTRONICALLY WITHOUT A BACK-UP? THEY CAN DECIDE TO PROCURE A STEREOTYPE OF EC MACHINES BUT THEY WILL STILL LOSE BIG. WITH THIS CONCERT MAHAMA IS SHOWING ON CIRCUS IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE DIE IS CAST. NDC YAMUTU
Collating results electronically is done everywhere in the world and it is also not illegal. But NDC will try to rig the elections by hacking into the database of EC. If that is what they intend to do, then they must think again because it will never work and might lead some of their officers to nsawam prison.
Elections are won at the polling station, so if the polling stations results say ndc have lost what can they do? They should understand they are dealing with people who are very sophisticated and will never allow them to over ride them. NPP IS not a party that rests after elections,they always do research that's why they find where they went wrong and rectify,ndc do not research according to Kwesi Botchway's report so collating electronically without knowing where you went wrong in the last elections won't solve no problem for the ndc. NPP have researchers abroad who do diligent work and communicate with their counterparts in Ghana,they are lucky to have members who are doing very well abroad with some holding big positions and delicate positions so NPP always have new strategies ndc use archaic soviet inferior tactics which is no more being used anywhere! look at te tactics John mahama and his followers are adopting. insulting trying to vilify and denigrate our Vice president which Ghanaians are not buying because it's boring and Ghanaians have outlived that so it won't work. The next strategy for the NPP for the 2020 elections is locked and that will break ndc's neck and they ndc should remember they lack credibility in Ghana. Their insults and noise making is just waste of time,there is no substance in it. John mahama is a goner ! there is no amount of insults,bad mouthing and all those backward attitudes being displayed by him will court him affection from Ghanaians,he is worsening his case with a heavier defeat ahead of him. Ghanaians can't afford an uncu**ltured and unco*uth president, we can't afford a backward president, NANA ADDO is civil very cultured, he will never waste his time to respond to john mahama's nons*ense, John mahama's post election defeat syndrome. Don't tell me to mind my words because he is a former president, he is not ,he is an ndc flagbearer aspirant. What goes around comes around. He insulted Ashantis did he feed them ? he called former president Rawlings on whose party John mahama is seeking that flagbearership Volta god is former president Rawlings one of his appointees for him to denigrate ? I will mention to him whatever fit of an uncivil former president,he doesn't deserve to be treated as a statesman or a former president because that comes with him respecting himself.
I am very sure that the NDC will be the first party to declare themselves winners in 2020 . Their so called electronic collation will be used to lie.
Please do not create an impression that the 2016 election was manipulated or rigged by NPP because NCD failed to equip or install a collation center to monitor and assess the election results. No, that was not the case. NDC rather was over-relying on the EC to do the rigging, underrating the fact that the 3 NDC- appointed ECs, who were to facilitate the rigging, were at loggerheads with one another. And, of course, in the absence of their combined cooperation, such a criminal act was bound to fail. Right from the onset of the appointment of Charlotte Osei, her demeanor was quite clear to do the bidding of the NDC, of creating the avenues to rig the election in their favor. This was evident in her delaying to announce the results, ostensibly blaming it on an overvoting in Kumasi, though her real motive was to rig it in favor of the NDC.
I wonder how collating results electronically can change any results
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO VOTE FOR YOUR NDC PARTY, FOR YOU TO COUNT ELECTRONICALLY, ALSO WHEN YOU COUNT ELECTRONICALLY, NPP WILL ALSO COUNT ELECTRONICALLY, THESE NDC'S ARE DAY DREAMERS. THESE NDC CONCERT JOKERS PARTY, WANTS TO COME DESPERATELY, AND CONTINUE CHOPPING OUR MONEY. THAT IS WHY NDC IS SOO DESPERATE FOR POWER, BUT GHANAIANS WILL NOT LISTEN TO THEM.
With the Ghana card how are they going to win? but I heard them say they are not going to be part if the Ghana card so what are they going to collate in 2020? ampa s3,nea owo 3ba kwa*sea ammere s3 nea otete no ! agyimifuo paaa ni! they are down with their massive and humiliating defeat and don't know what they are doing and saying! Hahahahahahahahaga! abodam paaani! so still,these people have no message than ***barred word*** nkoaaaa! heheheheheee! The five regions they chose to kill their royals are waiting for them! who cares about your electronic collation? tweeeaaaa! mo'ani so biribiri mo! NPP is moving beyond your thoughts! hahahahahaha!
You think you can use technology to rig again as you did in 2012? NPP will crush all your systems if you attempts to rig the elections. NDC cooked its own figures with the view to populating the EC's system and hence win the elections, but NPP reversed it.
Who cares? This is no news......