Voting has commnenced in the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections, during which a president and 275 Parliamentarians will be elected to govern the country for the next four years.

Voting which started at 7:00am will end at 5:00pm.

Over 15 million voters are expected to cast their ballot in the exercise which is taking place in some 29,000 polling stations across the country.

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About 90,000 voters out of 127,000 security personnel, electoral officers and journalists have already voted in a special voting exercise which was characterized by chaos and a drama of missing names.

A total of 64,000 security personnel have also been dispatched across the country to police the election to ensure law and order.

Seven presidential aspirants and hundreds of parliamentary candidates are contesting for political office.

Political watchers say the election is a straight fight between the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the largest opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

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