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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) seem frustrated by the seeming feet dragging by the Electoral Commission to deal with dispatch its request for an entirely new electoral voter register and has therefore written to the EC to conduct a thorough, open and transparent investigation into the specific evidence of flaws in the Voters' register as contained in the party's petition to the EC.

The opposition party has officially written two letters to the EC dated 18 August 2015 and 22 September 2015 cataloguing a number of irregularities in the voters register.

The evidence presented to the EC included multiple registrations, massive cross border registrations, presence of scanned photographs in the register, unexplained bloating and discrepancies in the EC's own numbers on the "Presidential" register, and the unusual, curious, strange and improbable increases in constituency numbers between electoral cycles.

The NPP believes such an investigation will throw independent light on the veracity of the evidence detailed in the party's petition. The findings of this investigation placed before stakeholders, will serve as basis of fruitful discussion on the urgency for a new Voters' register.

The Electoral Commission after receipt of the first dossier of alleged evidence by the NPP, tasked all political parties to submit proposals for a new Voters Register, a situation which was met with mixed reactions.

After receiving the concerns from the political parties, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei, a couple of weeks ago revealed that the Commission had engaged the services of independent IT experts to investigate the allegations of a bloated voters register.

“Now as a commission we are going to evaluate these proposals and we are also investigating the allegations which have been made by some political parties especially when it touches on the integrity or the security of our IT systems. We are getting independent outside expertise to help us look into those allegations,” she said.

What is however unknown is how long the supposed evaluation by the IT experts would last.