Survey finds Batswana don�t trust EVMs

Wednesday, November 01, 2017

A survey by Afro Barometer says a majority of Batswana are not convinced of switching to Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) from the manual system for the 2019 general elections.

The country has been using a manual voting system for years. The survey also found that the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) did not consulted the public sufficiently.

The findings of the survey show that only a slim majority (52%) of Batswana trust IEC ‘somewhat’ or ‘a lot’ and show a proportional decline of 18% in points over the last decade.

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