A Kumasi circuit court, presided over by Justice William Boampong, has sentenced a 23-year-old voter, arrested for multiple-registration, to two years imprisonment.
Kofi Adongo, a driver’s mate, had pleaded guilty to the offence.
He was caught when he attempted to vote on December 7 at the Kumawuman Rural Bank polling centre at Ahinsan in Kumasi.
He had gone there at about 1000 hours and was given out by the biometric verification machine (BMV) has having registered more than once.
Police Inspector Gulliver Tenkorang told the court that Adongo had on April 11, registered at the Garden City Radio Biometric Registration centre and issued with a voter Identification (ID) card number 3245016997.
On May 5, he again showed up at the Kumawuman Rural Bank centre and managed to go through the registration process and given another voter ID card - the number was 48440824267.
The convict, on voting day, joined other voters in a queue at the Kumawuman Rural Bank Centre and when he presented his voter ID card ostensibly to vote the BVM exposed him.
He was arrested and handed over to the police.