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At the Eduardo Mondlane school in Milange, Zambézia, polling station number 0805803-02 had 800 registered voters and was given 840 ballot papers tby the district STAE. But during the day, ballot papers out before all voters registered at that polling station had cast their ballots, and voters are still arriving. Where did the ballot papers go?
The president of the polling station had to stop the process when the ballot papers ran out and the process had to stop. The presiding officer of the polling station left and returned with a few batches of ballot papers, and voting resumed. But nearly 40 ballot papers were stolen and or stuffed in the ballot box – and no one saw it happen.
A presiding officer was arrested for giving more than one ballot paper to at least two voters, one of whom was a police officer. This happened at Assembly 09265-01 at the Namigonha Complete Primary School in Nampula city. The police officer was given five ballot papers in one go. Thanks to the intervention of election delegates and observers, including the police officer himself, the scam was foiled.
In Beira, a young man was neutralised for stuffing ballot boxes with his partner Inês. This happened at the Eduardo Mondlane school, in the Ponta Géa neighbourhood, at table 001, in the city of Beira.
Mais Integridade civil society observers reported problems during voting – in 18% of polling stations votes were impeded from voting and in 15% voting was interrupted. Observers were in 1040 polling stations
Voting was interrupted in 154 polling station (15%) with Ihla de Moçambique being worst with 40% of polling stations having interruptions, followed by Gurue (35%), and Ribaue and Morrumbala (27%).
Voters were impeded from voting in 183 polling stations (18%). The worst was Ribaue with voters impeded in 47% of polling stations, followed by Matola (38%), Massinga (33%) Cuamba (32%), Chitima (31%).
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