Deputy Director of Elections for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mahdi Gibril, has cautioned against the Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to rely on scanned pink sheets for the collation of parliamentary results in the Ablekuma North constituency, warning that it sets a dangerous precedent for future elections.

His remarks come after the EC ruled out a re-run of the 2024 parliamentary election in the constituency while insisting that results from three outstanding polling stations can still be collated.

Speaking in an interview on Channel One Newsroom on Thursday, June 19, 2025, Mahdi Gibril expressed serious reservations about the integrity of using scanned documents not agreed upon by all parties involved.

According to him, allowing such a practice undermines transparency and trust in the electoral process and could encourage manipulation and mistrust in subsequent elections.

“Today, if we easily accept to say; use scanned document to collate results when all parties do not have, we don’t have future elections because everybody will now play this trick to bring a scaned document and say I have it and that if you do not have it, let’s use my scanned document to collate the results. Will anybody accept that for presidential elections?” he questioned.