Electoral Commission (EC) Warns Electorates Against Machecki.Com Scam
Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has cautioned the general public against checking their eligibility to participate in the 2016 general elections using unauthenticated online applications. Director of Communications at the Electoral Commission, Mr. Eric Kofi Dzakpasu issued the disclaimer in an interview with OnuaFM on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 As part of the processes towards a clean register, names of persons who registered as voters using the National Health Insurance (NHIS) cards were deleted from the national voters register per the Supreme Court ruling on the Garry Nimako, Abu Ramadan versus the Electoral Commission’s case. Since the deletion of NHIS registrants, local developers came up with an online app that supposedly allows one to check his/her status on the EC’s voter register online and to know whether he or she was affected. “Once you log on to the site, machecki.com, you are asked to enter your voters ID number or NHIS ID number, after which it verifies to t...