Mozambique: CNE re-uses software system to tabulate election results in October 10 vote

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Mozambique: CNE re-uses software system to tabulate election results in October 10 vote

2:03 CAT | 09 Oct 2018

File photo: For illustration purposes only / Observers for Sierra Leone's National Election Watch check computers in Freetown, November 16, 2012, ahead of elections.

The National Election Commission (CNE) and the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE) are going to re-use a software system to determine the voting results in this Wednesday’s elections. They have also launched a written message service (SMS) and a computer platform that allow registered voters to consult their data and polling table.

The vote tabulation platform announced in Maputo last Friday was used in the 2008 and 2014 general elections, director of the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE), Felisberto Naife said.

The platform is a private system with four types of users: administrator, supervisor, typist and observer. The system has been updated under the 7/2018 law of August 3. Electoral body credentials are essential to access the application; electoral observers can only view results.

“The application collates the electoral results produced at polling stations. It will be used first in the provinces and, later, at national level,” Naife said.

The CNE will use the platform to allocate seats in each municipality.

Naife said the SMS service was in its pilot phase and only available in the cities of Maputo and Matola. Voters who supplied their mobile phone numbers at the time of voter registration would be sent information.

Access to the Internet site is available at www.cne.org.mz or www.stae.org.mz. Users are to click on “Place of Voting” [Local de Votação] on the right-hand side of the screen and follow the instructions.

Then, either the voter’s number is entered or the name, surname and district where he or she lives and his or her date of birth.

Source: A Verdade