According to Dr. Serebuor Quaicoe, Director of Electoral Services at the Electoral Commission (EC), the electoral officer who oversaw the pink sheet signing in the ongoing by-election in Kumawu even before the voting would conclude told him that the agents were instructed to write their names on the pink sheet but they went a step further to sign.
"I believe that our officer didn't perform well since she ought to have paid attention to ensure that they finished the part she was discussing before moving on to an other matter.
The agents also had a problem since, even though the ballots had not yet been tabulated, signing the results meant that you approved them.so our officer didn’t do well, and the agents of both NPP and NDC also didn’t do well.
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“It should be on record that it wasn’t one particular party agent that signed, both of them signed. We have replaced that sheet with another sheet.”
Dr Serebuor Quaicoe added [the officer] was saying that when he completed his portion he asked [the agents] to put their names there and the people went beyond and signed so he didn’t ask them to sign. If that is the case then we can only fault him for not supervising them.”
He further dismissed claims that the agents were forced to sign.
“The initial claim is that he forced them. An adult, can someone force you to do things that you have been cautioned not to do? So I am tempted to believe that the people mistakenly signed.”
The Electoral Officer is the one in charge of the Oyoko Methodist Primary School polling station No F360203 in the Sekyere Kumawu Constituency.