Overnight queues largely missing in 2024 elections
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It has been a surprising departure from the past; the widespread long, overnight queues usually associated with general elections in Ghana have been missing this election, safe for a handful of places.
The norm would have been that long queues of voters, and objects such as stones, chairs and gallons representing voters, would have formed overnight as anxious voters desiring to cast their ballots early in the day forgo sleep.
The stones and gallons would represent voters in the queues who want to attend to some other business and would have secured their turns with the acknowledgement of ‘neighbours’ in the queue.
This is in spite of the labelling of this year’s election as a ‘high stakes’ election, whatever that means.
