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- ↑ "Elections in Ghana". African Elections Database. Albert C. Nunley. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
- ↑ "ELECTIONS 2004" (PDF). Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Electoral Commission of Ghana. November 2005. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
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