At Jasikan in the Volta Region, two people were arrested at the CMB shed for possessing fake voter identity cards, Mr. Benjamin Dorkruku, Assistant Superintendent of Police in charge of Jasikan District, told the GNA.
He said the men were arrested upon a tip-off and that police were still investigating.
Voting started smoothly with long queues at all the polling stations visited by the GNA and election officials said there were adequate materials and security.
At Hohoe, voting has been smooth in the Hohoe Municipality where long queues had formed by 0500 hours.
At the Saint Francis Demonstration JSS Polling Station where 153 out of 847 registered voters had cast their votes by 0920 hours, Mr Emmanuel Kigbadzor, Presiding Officer commended the comportment of voters and expressed the hope the peaceful atmosphere would prevail throughout the period of voting.
At the Saint Teresa's Training College Demonstration JSS polling station at Bla electoral area in the Hohoe-North constituency, Mr Kennedy Mortiglo, the Presiding Officer, said voting started at 0715 hours due to late arrival of voting materials.
At the time the of the GNA's visit at 1000 hours 250 out of 1,333 voters had voted.
Agents of the NDC, NPP, PNC, DFP and CPP were present at all the polling stations visited and police personnel were also present.
In Koforidua, long but well-organised queues were seen at a number of polling stations the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited before voting took off at 0700 hours.
The queues started forming around 0400 hours, early voters and polling assistants told the GNA.
At the Two Streams Temporary booth, the queue stretched as far as on roads. Residents in the New Juaben Municipality came out in their numbers to exercise their franchise.
Miss Esther Boateng, an Agricultural Engineering graduate, from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, said she joined the queue around 0400 hours and was yet to cast her vote as at 0715 hours.
At the Koforidua Nurses Training School Polling Station, Mr Amoako Baah, the Presiding Officer, said the conduct of voters had been orderly and that 29 persons had voted as at 0730 hours out of the 784 registered voters.
The Forestry Department Office Polling Station recorded 97 voters as at 0755 hours out of a total of 755 votes.
The situation was not different from other polling stations visited including the Railway station where 67 out of 1,115 had voted by 0800 hours. At the Legion Hall Polling Station 85 people had voted as at 0819 hours out of 686 votes.
At the Akwadum Highway Polling Centre, 179 out of 629 had cast their votes as at 0930 hours, whiles the Akwadum Road Bungalow Polling Centre had also recorded 107 out of 315 in a serene atmosphere.
With the exception of the Convention People's Party (CPP), who had no agents at most of the polling centres visited all the parties namely the National Democratic Congress (NDC), New Patriotic Party (NPP), People's National Convention (PNC), Democratic People's Party (DPP) and independent candidate had party agents at one centre or the other.
The GNA realised that some of the NDC polling agents faced difficulties with accreditation in the New Juaben South Constituency.
Presiding Officers explained that the EC have directed that party agents without accreditation should not allowed at the centres.
This situation resulted in confusion at the Akwadum Highway polling station where an argument ensued between the New Juaben Constituency Chairman of the NDC, Mr Richard Foster and the Presiding Officer, Mr Emmanuel Koranteng.
When the Municipal Electoral Officer, Miss Lydia Egyiri, was contacted she confirmed the EC's directive.
However, she said to ensure fairness she had directed all the presiding officers to allow any agent whose accreditation letter had not been signed to the polling station to perform their duty.
At Nkwanta in the Volta Region, the Presiding Officer assigned to the E.P JHS "A" Workshop polling sStation and three polling assistants for the E.P. JHS Polling Station at Nkwanta in the Nkwanta South Constituency failed to turn up for duty causing a delay in the start of voting at those polling stations.
Mr. Iddrisu Adam, Returning Officer for the Constituency, told the GNA that new people had to be recruited to get the exercise going otherwise the election has so far been without any major hitches.
At the Nkwanta Secondary School Polling station 357 voters out of 910 cast their ballots at 1010 hours when the GNA visited there.
At the English Arabic Polling Station, Mr. Michael Gbedebu, the Presiding Officer said 335 out of 1,428 people whose names were in the register cast their ballots as at 1000 hours while at the EP JHS Polling Station 200 out of 1,080 people cast their ballots.