Money, Mandates, and Polling Stations: Rethinking the cost of Ghana’s democracy

“Elections are won or lost at the polling stations” has become a blunt axiom that has lodged itself in Ghana’s political imagination. The phrase captures more than factual truth; it names a practical economy. Behind every vote cast at the nation’s roughly 41,000 polling stations lies a dense circuitry of money, matériel and mandate. Party organisers […] Read Full Story