A political marketing strategist with the University of Ghana Business School, Dr. Kobby Mensah, has urged political parties to adopt universal suffrage as a means of curbing 'cash for votes' in internal polls. He argued that it would be much more difficult for candidates in internal party elections to buy their way through if the electoral college was expanded to include all registered members of the party and not just delegates. ‘Moneycracy’ In an interview with the Daily Graphic, Dr. Mensah said ‘moneycracy’, which had characterised party primaries for years, was a threat to the gains the country had made through democracy. He, therefore, called on the Electoral Commission (EC) and security services such as the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to probe all reports of votes being exchanged in return for cash and sanction culprits. "It is not acceptable for a democracy to experience such a high level of payments," Dr. Mensah said. Obviously, if you have t...