GhanaElection 2008 · One hundred and thirty-eight(138) District Electoral Officers · Other Senior Electoral Officers at the Head Office and the Regions · Over a thousand staff of various categories distributed at Head Office, Regional and District offices. Temporary staff(Polling Officials) · At election time, the Commission engages thousands of officials of various categories for temporary election duties. For the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections, the following categories and numbers of officials were engaged: · A Returning Officer, assisted by two(2) deputies at constituency level with responsibility of administering the elections in each of the two hundred and thirty(230) constituencies; this was done under the direction and general supervision of the District Electoral Officer of the Commission. In all, seven hundred and ninety(790) Returning Officers and their deputies were recruited for the 2008 General Elections. · One(1) Presiding Officer each was assigned to a polling station. The Presiding Officer had full control over Polling Assistants and proceedings at his/her polling station. Twenty one thousand and four(21,004) such Presiding Officers were recruited. · Also, eighty-four thousand and sixteen(84,016) Polling Assistants were recruited nationwide to assist the Presiding Officers. As such, at each Polling Station, there were four(4) Polling Assistants who performed various election duties to support the Presiding Officers. Organisational Structure of the Commission Article 52 of the 1992 Constitution enjoins the Commission to appoint officers and other employees in consultation with the Public Service Commission. The Commission, therefore, has an elaborate three-tier structure consisting of the Head Office, Regional Offices and District Offices. The Head Office of the Commission is located in Accra on 8 th Avenue, opposite, Ridge Hospital. The Commission is organized into two major functional divisions – Operations and Finance& Administration – each of which is headed by a deputy chairman. In turn, each functional division is sub­divided into departments, headed by directors. As required by the Constitution the Commission is represented in each 6