Election 2012: Bla Elik in Tema Reporting 03

Friday 07:47hrs

The voting is a bit slow because of the verification step.. but not
to worry, it is too early to form any conclusion.. We will surely
fall into the rhythm as the day trudges on.

the Radio and TV stations are really standing up to the beat with
good spread on reporting.

It seems in many places across teh country, voting has not started as
of now.. either the materials are a bit late arriving or as I am
hearing on radio, one polling station in Tema Central (Comm 4 Police
station area) the ballot boxes are wet from yesterday's rains and the
papers are all soaked and so if the EC doesnt step in with new
materials, the folks may have a challenge voting today. IN Bukom,
Freeman Methodist Church Polling station, it appears that two of the
EC staff were late and they had to look for replacements so they may
start voting in the next few minutes at about 0800 or thereabouts..
but in all cases the folks are comporting themselves very very well.

In one or two places, it looks like where there are two polling
booths in the same area, the list is split into two groups by
alphabetical order (say A-J, then K-Z) and this is also in tone.

Logistics planning, back-up systems, tests of back-up systems, more
logistics planning.. A lesson we probably never complete.

But I tell you, the people are really really eager to vote. Delays
or no delays!!!


I will be back.!!

BTW, You can read my quadrilineal blog and catch up with the
excitement of the previous posts on http://bla-elik.blogspot.com

Bla Elik