Electoral Offences 2.1 Application for registration as a voter Voter Registration Exercise forms a major activity and plays a pivotal role in the electoral process. By registration, names and other details of the applicant are captured and stored for subsequent use of the voting day. Before registration of voters, the Electoral Commission of Ghana gets a notice published in the gazette to this effect and states the eligibility conditions that qualify one to apply to be registered as a voter. During registration, the application is made in person at a registration centre. When a qualified applicant appears before a registration officer at a centre, the registration officer fills the registration form based on the relevant information the applicant supplies him/her. The applicant then affixes his/her thumbprint at the appropriate column on the form. The applicant then proceeds to the next stage of the registration process for the relevant biometric data to be taken. Ghana has adopted a Biometric registration system that involves not only the details and picture of the applicant, but his/her ten fingerprints as well as a digital photography that ought to be taken in 8