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Winneba (C/R), Aug. 11, GNA – The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has proposed to the Electoral Commission (EC) to adopt a system that will electronically transmit election results directly from the polling stations to its website in the 2024 elections.

Rev Dr Fred Deegbe, a representative of the Centre, said such a system would help to check the irregularities associated with the collation, transmission, and announcement of election results to safeguard the integrity of the election and regain public trust in it as citizens monitor the process in real time.

This is because, he indicated misinformation and disinformation, rise in the malicious use of social media, and other pervasive uses of digital technologies remained a threat to the upcoming elections which required multi-faceted approach to combat it .

He observed that the enhancement of media and information literacy was one of the effective strategies to tame it.

Rev Dr Deegbe made the remarks at the 10th anniversary public lecture of the Political Science Education Department of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) held on the theme: “Towards a peaceful 2024 election in Ghana, collaborations among stakeholders in the context of emerging technologies.”

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