Ghana voters to return to polls

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Ghana voters to return to polls
Posted: 08:09 PM ET
(CNN) — Ghana’s new president won’t be decided until Friday, when voters in one of the countries 230 constituencies will return to the polls to recast their ballots, the chairman of the Ghana Electoral Commission announced Tuesday.

Votes cast Sunday in the other 229 constituencies have been certified, said Kwadwo Afari-Gyan at a news conference in the capital, Accra. He did not say why voters in the Tain constituency, in midwestern Ghana’s Brong Ahafo region, must vote again.

Afari-Gyan said that John Evans Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress currently leads Nana Addo Bankwa Akufu-Addo of the incumbent New Patriotic Party by 23,055 votes in the run-off election, a margin too small to call a winner without the Tain voters.

Mills won Tain constituency in the general election, defeating Akufo-Addo there by 1,276 votes.

The two men led a field of eight candidates in the December 7 general election, but neither secured a majority of the votes. Akufo-Addo held a slight lead in that vote.