GhanaElection 2008 A Committee which was chaired by the Deputy Chairman in charge of Finance and Administration, Mr. David Kangah, was formed to investigate the allegation with the following as members: representatives of the two major political parties- NPP and NDC, two representatives of the smaller parties, and a representative of the Computer Systems Division of the West Africa Examination Council. However, the Committee's findings pointed to a genuine human error on the part of the schedule officer at the IT Section of the Commission, who generated'the register' from existing captured bio-data of eligible voters. Registration(Revision) Considerations Re-registration by voters who misplace or lose their voter ID Cards in Ghana is a very common phenomenon; as the card serves the identification needs of much of the population, in the absence of a National Identification Card. In order to minimize the resultant incidences of multiple registration, the Commission availed the public the opportunity to have their missing cards replaced prior to the re-opening of the existing register. As such, the projected number of voters who might have attained the minimum voting age plus those who might not have registered previously, owing to one reason or the other, was put at around one(1) million. Review Exercise The 2008 limited voter registration exercise started on 31 st July through to the 12 th of August, 2008. The original ten(10) day period set aside for the exercise was extended by two(2) additional days to allow for several persons who could not have their names on the register during the period to do so. Patronage of the exercise was unprecedented and true to the Commission's fears, large numbers of persons claiming to be'first time voters' turned out at the registration centres resulting in very long queues and the shortage of registration forms. Contingency measures had to be taken to print extra forms to capture voter's data. At the close of the exercise 1,835,417 new voters had their names added unto the register.(Table 3.1) 25