Experiencing elections, Ghanaian style

I spent election day with a nice Ghanaian guy named Daniel who works in the hotel. I asked him when and where he was going to vote so he invited me to join him in the neighborhood behind the hotel and we went to the polls, talked local politics, and I got introduced to the entire neighborhood where we sat down in a local bar in what is a very friendly shantytown.

While we were walking he gets a call from his sister who I find out has lived in Israel for 15 years and is a musician and model in Israel who married an Israeli and is now separated but is actually an Israeli citizen. He passed me the phone and I spoke to her in Hebrew and she was in shock that I'm walking around her neighborhood in Africa and speaking Hebrew to her while she is in Israel! It trully is a small world

So we went to the polls and he voted without incident and as I'm typing this the election results are being counted out every 5 seconds from the various districts as ballots are hand counted in Ghana. I'll be uploading a lot of video from today so be patient as it will take some time, so come back to this post if you only see a few videos.