Voting in the Tain Constituency to conclude the 2008 Presidential Election Runoff has begun in earnest amidst heavy security presence and so far everything is going on smoothly.
According to the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan voting could not take place in the constituency on December 28 2008 because of the obstinacy of an individual he did not name.
Dr Afari-Gyan, who was being interviewed on an Akan Speaking radio station in Accra, on Friday, explained that Officers of the Electoral Commission discovered that they were running out of ballot papers because of a miscalculation.
He said the practice of the EC was to send 10 per cent more ballot papers to every polling centre to cater for those that would get spoiled in the course voting. He said when the Officers started distributing the ballot papers they did not take into consideration the fact that some of the ballot papers had been used during the special voting.
As a result they discovered that they were going to run out of ballot papers when they were getting to the end of the allocation.
He said when the Officers realised the problem, they decided to reduce the allocation of 10 per cent of additional ballot papers to five per cent for every polling centre, but this unnamed individual said he would not agree and as a result voting could not take place in the constituency.