2.2.3 Electoral commissions with very important prerogatives In addition to the attributions enumerated above, electoral commissions of some Anglophone countries enjoy certain prerogatives which their Francophone and Lusophone counterparts do not have. In Ghana The Ghanaian electoral commission is no doubt one of the best equipped monitoring organs in terms of the power to compile the electoral list and to produce an annual review of the list. A complete overhauling of the lists is also done every ten years. It controls and supervises all public elections as well as referenda. It also promotes civic and electoral education of the populace. As a notable feature in the African setting where monitoring of the activities of political parties is often the duty of government authorities and more precisely of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in Ghana, the electoral commission undertakes the registration and controls the activities of political organizations. Similarly, the commission is empowered to audit the accounts of these parties which are usually brought to it. It determines the establishment of polling stations on the basis the geographical data available and even fixes the number of constituencies. The constitution equally empowers it to regularly check the relevance of the zoning according to countries. If the need for any modification arises, the commission takes care of it by itself. It has the mandate on all matters of printing the ballot papers. 68