[AEP]The electronic gadgets used to verify the biometric data of prospective voters in a number of centers have broken down, stalling the voting process in those polling stations. The verification machines which are being introduced for the first time in Ghana also failed to recognize some prospective voters at other centers though they presented Identification cards and also had their names on the register.

[AEP]Information available to Africa Election Project indicates that officials of the Electoral Commission are having an emergency meeting with all political parties official for possible changes in voting rules, especially concerning the verification.

[AEP]Voting has been suspended in Ghana's general elections in areas where biometric registration equipment have broken down after several voters were caught in long queues even after the official closure of voting at 5pm on Friday.

[AEP]ADJOURNMENT OF POLL AT POLLING STATIONS WHERE BIOMETRIC VERIFICATION OF VOTERS COULD NOT BE COMPLETED.

[AEP]Counting has started following the official close of the 2012 general elections at 17:00 today. The first results are expected later on Friday evening through to early Sunday .

[African Arguments]Ghanaians are voting for the next president of the longest-lived republic in their country's history.

[AEP]Some voting centres in the Greater Accra region have registered very long, meandering queues of voters while other centres have virtually no queues at all.

[New Democrat]About 13 million Ghanaian registered voters above 18 years thronged polling stations since this morning to elect a president and 275 members of parliament. Ghana's electoral authorities will for the first time use a biometric system to confirm voters' identities.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Shama District Health Directorate has from January to November 2012 recorded 78 AIDS cases out of which 15 are pregnant women.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Google has announced its annual Zeitgeist, a look at 2012 through the collective eyes of the World Wide Web, offering a unique perspective on the hottest trends based on searches conducted in Ghana in 2012.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]"Post-independence political history of Ghana has been characterised by democratic elections, coups and counter coups. Ghana since independence has had five civilian administrations and four military regimes"-remarked Prof Irene K. Odotei (January 11, 2008).

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Government has begun a nationwide Information and Communication Technology (ICT) training for 50,000 teachers across the country. The project aims at improving the teachers' knowledge base on ICT. They are also expected to pass on the knowledge acquired from the training to their pupils.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr. Kwaku Agyeman Mensah, has ordered the arrest of the owner of an agro chemical warehouse at Atwima Boko, near Kumasi, over an explosion which has resulted in a pungent odour surrounding the metropolis.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]THE IMMEDIATE past Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang has advised graduands at the Ghana Technology University College (GTUC) to be content with small beginnings.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]As the 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary elections approach, there are still persistent but misleading assertions in sections of the media and some corridors of power that the number of votes needed to determine a winner in a presidential election must be 50 percent plus one vote.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Member of Parliament (MP) for Asunafo North, Robert Sarfo-Mensah, has commissioned an ultra-modern Information Communication Technology Center for the people of Goaso, to assist in the effective teaching and learning of the ICT in the municipality.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]CHILDREN FROM a cluster of schools within the Ashaiman Municipality have called on the electorate to exercise their franchise based on their conviction in the values of political parties, and accept the outcome of the elections.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Large numbers of Ghanaians sojourning in Togo, Benin and Nigeria have started arriving in Aflao, en-route their hometowns to participate in the Friday December 7 General Elections.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Eighty-four registered voters in the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District will not be voting on Friday because they registered more than once.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The long-anticipated 7th December 2012 D-Day for Elections 2012, is finally here, bright and sunny.