Fears of 2019 Rigging Need To Be Eliminateda

Monday, August 29, 2016

Recently the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) pressed on with its otherwise progressive initiative to have their next General Elections process undertaken via electronic voting.

On paper this should have been an easily highly welcome development for the simple reason that electronic voting would hopefully reduce time taken to release the results.

The last General elections results announcement was the slowest process by far, as it took over three days, and over four days in some constituencies to announce the results, all thanks to the archaic method which has no doubt now been overtaken by events.

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Fears of 2019 Rigging Need To Be Eliminateda

Recently the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) pressed on with its otherwise progressive initiative to have their next General Elections process undertaken via electronic voting.

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