2024 elections: Political party supporters anxious as collation delays hours after polls

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Several hours after the close of polls in the December 7 general elections, not a single certified result has been declared by the Electoral Commission(EC).

This has left a lot of voters especially supporters of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) sitting on tenterhooks.

The EC had earlier announced that the collation of both presidential and parliamentary results was underway at all 276 constituency collation centres.

According to the Commission, about 60 per cent of polling station results had been received at the constituency collation centres by the time of their update.

However, results are yet to be processed in many areas despite polls closing at 5:00 PM on Saturday.

The delays are attributed to incidents of chaos and confusion at various polling stations nationwide regarding the transportation of ballots to collation centres.

Meanwhile, presiding officers from various polling stations are reportedly queuing to have their results validated for the collation and declaration of results.