BDP could expel Tonota north ballot fiddler - Tafa

A prominent Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) activist who sits on the party's Political Education and Elections Committee (PEEC) is likely to face disciplinary action, for allegedly attempting to cook the results of Tonota North primary elections in order to force a recount, The Monitor is informed.

The alleged fiddler was once the Francistown deputy mayor. At a press conference last Friday, the Chairman of the BDP Electoral Board, Parks Tafa, said the woman was part of the team that conducted the controversial primaries. 

"She came to us saying she had found ballot papers at the counting centre," Tafa said. "When we asked her what she had gone to do there, she said she had gone to fetch some of her stuff she had forgotten there and had found the ballots under a table. I am talking about a PEEC member who has been a deputy mayor of some town."  These allegations come in the wake of a protest by Onkabetse Daniel, one of the contenders in the primaries, challenging the results in which Fidelis Molao emerged the winner. It is believed the PEEC member who allegedly fiddled with the ballots wanted Daniel to win.

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