Exhibition centres in Cape Coast have recorded a low turn out since the voter�s register was opened by the Electoral Commission (EC) to the public on Monday August 9.
The exercise is to enable the public to have an opportunity to cross check their names, pictures and also correct errors, which they detect in the register.
It would also enable the EC to have the names of the dead expunged from the register, which is perceived to be bloated.
When the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited some of the centres in the Cape Coast Metropolis on Friday morning, most of the exhibition officers
were virtually on holiday, as people trickled in to check their names.
Some officers blamed it on poor publicity, saying, they had to literally beg people living around their centres to come and check their
names.
Others said people were reluctant to comply because they felt their voter�s ID cards were intact and therefore did not see the need to check
their names.
At the Philip Quaicoo Boys Basic School Exhibition Centre, Mr Richard Mensah-Attah, the Exhibition Officer said 50 of the 904 people in his register had checked their names since the exercise began, with three people reported dead.
The exhibition centres at the Siwidu Methodist A and B Centres only 122 out of the 1,535 registered electorates had visited the centre.
The Exhibition Officer at the Adisadel Mosque Centre, Mr Ahmed Tijani Hassan said out of the 1363 registered voters, only 87 had checked theirnames, with six deaths, while the Pedu M/A Primary and JHS Centres had 110 out of the 2,231 registered voters visiting.
At the Essuekyir M/A Primary and JHS, 101 of the 2,422 registered voters, had checked while eight deaths had so far been recorded, whilst at
the Abura Catholic JHS Centre, the exhibition officer, Mrs Hassana Adjoa Atta told the GNA that 64 persons out of the 1418 total voters had checked with no reported deaths.
A total of 91 persons of the 3,560 total registered voters at the Abura Catholic Primary A and B Centres had checked their names and the Exhibition Officers, Mr Ishmael Arthur and Mr Thomas Abakah said no deaths had been reported at their centres.
The Exhibition Officer of the Abura Ahmadiyya Primary A and B Centres, Mr Mohammed Essuman said out of the 2,492 total registered voters, only 111 had checked their names with no deaths.