Should It Be A Crime To Photograph Your Vote?: Martin Kpebu & Samson Lardy Anyenini Debate the Law

[@anyasmiller806]

We need to pass a law making parliamentarians to sit for exams on basic electoral laws prior to every general elections so that we can hold them accountable if they go against the laws

[@williamagyei2214]

Taken photographs and sharing food should be a crime in the country during election.

[@winimea.azumah4912]

If we all start taking pictures of our ballot, do you know what chaos that will create in this country. Hmmmm, what is Sampson saying? So, now it is okay taking pictures of our ballot. Will Sampson go defend those listening to him all over the country telling them that they can take pictures of their ballot!!!

[@kwabenasakyi2598]

This debate is needless

[@percylaryea5657]

In the USA there signs posted at the polling centers that indicates phones should be turned off.

[@pm_kay]

The concept of Law annoys more every passing day!!!!!🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@KwameBoateng-kv3gw]

Law without understanding

[@NanaesarOnJoy]

That law is clearly USELESS. LET THE PERSON OUT

[@salifuawudu-ns9hi]

SAMSON YOU ARE NOT GIVING A CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF THE LAW, IN ANY WAY IF THE LAW IS PROTECTING THE SECRECY OF THE VOTER AND THE VOTER GO AGAINST THAT, THE VOTER IS LIABLE FOR PROSECUTION.

[@iddrisga1386]

Kpebu is right ,his arguments sound logical than Samson...

[@anthonyatitso4857]

You can express your concern and that does not prove you have really done that but a situation where u show it has been done

[@dominicadjei995]

is Sampson trying to tell us that where a person decides to take his own life by killing himself, that person commits no crime because he or she has decided to take his on life?

[@mywifecantcook2974]

Your life is protected by the constitution, right to life,... but it's also expected of you to uphold that protection by protecting and preserving your own life, violating it by attempting suicide is a major crime. Same will apply here.

[@pm_kay]

Exactly my thoughts!!!!

[@francisdonkor5738]

I disagree with Sampson, because when a voter writes his name on the ballot, that ballot is rejected. And this is what the says.

[@AshantiJuliusCeasar]

Samson is not speaking law.

[@mariasedashsedash3088]

He is only trying to defend the behaviour of those who took photos of their votes

[@justiceyevugah8411]

Whaaat??? Should this even be a question? ? It should be about how swiftly the task force is able to deal with such people. Why is it a secret ballot. ?

[@mywifecantcook2974]

You see, you can liken this law to the law that criminalises attempted suicide..... the law is trying to protect you, it's still your life but you cannot voilate it by taking your own life. It's protecting your right to secret balloting, though it's your choice, you still cannot voilate it. Samson is wrong with this one

[@TrendWithGrace]

But Sampson why should an official be ask to protect secrecy of an individual but then a voter can do so if he wills ? It doesn’t make sense at all

[@IsaacPrinceGlorier]

If bribery involves two people; the giver and the recipient, why was Kingsley Nyarko (I can't address him as honourable because he didn't behave honourably in this matter) left to go free and that poor EC temporary staff layed off?

[@KwameBoateng-kv3gw]

This law is totally baseless

[@iddrisga1386]

Sure Samson is N9T speaking law...

[@samuelerzah-vt5ux]

The law said that on that day, you should not take a picture or show it. (That day)

[@IsaacPrinceGlorier]

Samuel Lardy, please go back to the constitution. Subsection 3 generalises the subjects by saying, "A person shall not..." This includes the voter. Subsection 1 mentions specific officers to whom the provision concerns.

[@derrickafianu4220]

You can declare your vote but you can't showcase the ballot paper features on which a voter used until the ballot are accounted for by Election official.

[@osricjohnson3235]

I am afraid Martin is right. If the law was intended for election officers only it should have said so as it does in other cases. Anyone include everybody except clearly exempted.

[@RichardAryee-h4s]

Saying I voted for a candidate is different from showing a real proof of if. because you can say something and do else, let think about what we mostly refer to as the spirit of the law.

[@bendzukey6319]

IN GHANA IT SHOULD NOT APPLY BECAUSE THERE'S NO TRUST IN THE SYSTEM SO THE VOTER NEEDS TO KEEP HIS EVIDENCE

[@kofihermanagboh153]

I don't agree with Samson.

[@mrw1762]

these hosts keep on repeating the same. Use your common sense small.

[@emmanueladjei9327]

Why Samson Lady sometimes ask a silly question as if he is not a lawyer?. What I know as a novice of the law is that a voter must not disclose his or her ballot to the public that is why a provision is made for a voter to vote in an enclosed ballot cabin.

[@KekeliBuckner]

So you people are more concerned about a picture than people sharing food to voters in a queue. Smh

[@richill3963]

I feel that what makes it a secret happens only the boot because that is where the truth can be seen and identified. In other words I can tell the whole world that I voted for candidate A or B meanwhile truthfully the candidate I voted for can only be told about with what happened secretly in the boot! I think anything that happens outside or after the boot can't be said to be secret or true because it cannot be verified... My opinion...

[@niinii5070]

What country do they take pictures of votes, Ghana is becoming something on this planet Earth. Villagers will not discuss this but we will have so called interletuals to discuss this on radio because the same people want to bend the law

[@Cynthia-mx8cm]

Who is this Martin guy ? His personal view is not the law .

[@ghanasoukous348]

ballot selfie or picture taking is a form core political speech and a ban or prosecution may stifle free speech and expression. You cannot ban an act meant to ocombat an unsubstantiated and hypothetical danger of vote buying. The state must establish that ballot picture taking is because a vote has been sold or bought.

[@IsaacPrinceGlorier]

Martin Kpebu, you just read that a person shall not, at any point in time, disclose his or her vote. You are equally at fault for saying that you once voted for the NPP, though it happened long after the declaration of the results.

[@isaacdarban6745]

Martin doesn’t speak law, always using emotions

[@mariasedashsedash3088]

Then we should all start taking pictures of our votes if this is how you joy fm are seeking to do. Why do you want to turn the Country into a banana republic instead of you condemning this nonsense