At 1100 hours, the office of the EC in the Tema Metro, where the exercise is being conducted, was filled with new registrants from the Tema West, Tema East and Tema Central constituencies. 

Persons who turned out, many of whom were in orderly queues with others seated and waiting in turns to register, were mostly people who recently turned 18 or for some reasons were unable to register at the last exercise conducted in 2016.

The Commission had provided canopies for officials and the increasing number of new registrants, to protect them from the vagaries of the weather.

Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at the registration centre in Tema on Wednesday, Nana Oduro Numapau, the Tema Metropolitan Electoral Officer, indicated that the number of registrants kept increasing daily, and said "measures had been put in place to speed up the process to register a lot more prospective and eligible voters". 

He noted that so far, over 4,000 persons had been duly registered and issued with cards since the start of the exercise and said the commission hoped to register a lot more people in the coming weeks.

He said they had encountered very minor challenges with the online registration system meant to complement the manual exercise, adding that in spite of the sensitization over the weeks, some persons who had misplaced their cards still thronged the centres to register.

This challenge, he stated, had been remedied as such persons suspected to be above 24 years were usually referred to the managers of the online registration system to be verified and subsequently issued new cards on later dates.

According to Nana Oduro, due to unreliable internet connectivity for the online registration, additional equipment had been provided to facilitate the process manually.