Barely 24 hours after the Electoral Commission released the names of voters deleted from its register for using National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) cards for registration, a team of Ghanaian developers have developed a simple and efficient web-portal to check if one’s name has been deleted or not.
The portal, machecki.com, makes it easy for voters both home and abroad to check if their name is included in the list of 56,000 voters the EC struck out from the registers on the orders of a Supreme Court ruling.
According to the team of developers who worked on machecki.com, for a voter to check if their detail is captured in the deleted names, they should log on to the platform and enter either their voter’s ID or NHIS card number. This will return with a result which proves whether they have been captured or not.
Divine Puplampu who led the team together with Agbenyegah Kirk Saviour, the two lead developers, said the two-step responsive web-portal simplifies the EC’s move to ensure no voter is disenfranchised in the upcoming Presidential and Parliamentary polls.
“The 56,900 list released by the EC yesterday spans 1171 pages. Rather than scanning through that huge document, the voter can just use their Voter ID or NHIS number to check their eligibility, simple as that,” Mr. Puplampu said.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Machecki Technologies Ltd, the wholly-owned Ghanaian IT firm, Richard Annerquaye Abbey, said the company is poised to deliver on other innovative products that will enhance the country’s electoral process and stands ready to engage the Electoral Commission
Instructively, Machecki Ghana is a foremost identity-verification company that has developed Ghana’s first web-based application that enables registered voters to verify their details in Ghana’s voters’ register to ensure their details are present and captured without errors, making them eligible for participating in the upcoming elections.
With its innovation like, voters do not need to be physically present at their polling stations available to verify their details in the voters’ register. All they will need is a device with a web browser and a stable Internet connection to check their details and make sure they are eligible to exercise their constitutional right. The team is still engaging with the Electoral Commission to make this technology available in the coming Voters’ Register Exhibition Exercise.
African Eye Report
