In Ghana, the electoral commission consists of 7 members. 3 of these members work as permanent appointees and on full time basis for the commission, the 4 others are only brought on board from time to time. At the local level, the electoral commission is represented through a maximum of 10 offices per region and 3 offices per division of a department. The commission only receives Ghanaian votes from abroad during presidential elections. In fact, there are numerous issues on the organization of the votes of Ghanaians living abroad, and it does not appear as if the laws adopted on this issue – already prepared – will be implemented during the next electoral contests(2008). In Mali, the National Electoral Commission has 15 members. In the District of Bamako, the capital, the commission has 6 members at the level of the region and local government. Some of its members are installed to maintain close relations with the embassies and consulates of Mali abroad, and the NEC is itself represented in these diplomatic missions. In Nigeria, the electoral commission comprises 13 members. It is represented across the entire national territory. The commission has representations in all the states of the federation and the federal capital. In the case of Senegal, ANEC has three levels of representation. There is first of all a representation of ANEC at the departmental level(the Autonomous Departmental Electoral Commission, ADEC, about 34 offices with 9 members per ADEC), then at the regional level(the Autonomous Regional Electoral Commission, AREC, 11 offices with 7 members each) and finally abroad, in the embassies and consulates (the External Delegation of ANEC, EDCENA, which has each 7 53