The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Jean Mensa has explained that an information technology system contract with its vendor has been abrogated.
She said the contract was abrogated because it was very expensive.
She explained although the vendor had a total monopoly over the system and could shut it down at any time, the EC was required to pay $56 million for an upgrade, $ 4 million yearly as maintenance fee and $1.5 million for Internet service delivery.
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She made this known on Thursday, September 12, 2019, when the EC, paid a courtesy call on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House, as part of a series of consultative meetings being held with stakeholders of the electioneering process.
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She said the commission was in consultation with others for a more efficient system that would cost half of the $56 million upgrade fee.
