Illegal ballot boxes; STAE just moves cancelled Frelimo trainers – CIP Mozambique Elections

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Illegal ballot boxes; STAE just moves cancelled Frelimo trainers – CIP Mozambique Elections

4:21 CAT | 27 Sep 2024

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After Quelimane training was cancelled, STAE simply moved Frelimo nominees to other districts

Artur Manuel Marroda and Camilo António, who unusually are members of the defence and security forces, assigned to the State Security Services and the Rapid Intervention Unit (riot police), were numbers 36 and 107 on the cancelled Quelimane list and are numbers 10 and 15 on the new Nicoladala list. Some security personal were put on the list without participating in any public competition. The lists are on the pdf version of this newsletter: HERE.

Lopes António Costa was 115 on the list cancelled by STAE Central is now 25 on the Guruè list .

CIP Eleições now has a copy of the list sent on 1 July by the Frelimo head of Internal Activities to Zambézia Provincial STAE, with the names of its members for provincial MMV trainers. Also HERE.

CNE violates electoral law by keeping ballot boxes that allow vote stuffing

The new electoral law requires transparent ballot boxes with a slot that allows the insertion of only a single ballot paper per voter. The boxes used last year in municipal elections and earlier had a wider slot allowing several ballot papers folded together, and which could not be seen. But on 12 September, the National Electoral Commission (CNE) decided to use last year’s ballot boxes from the October 2023 local elections process during this year’s 9 October general elections. This is in violation of the law and will encourage ballot box stuffing.

The CNE justifies the decision by citing budgetary limitations, the tight timeframe which makes public tender procedures impossible, and the fact that the CNE has just ordered an extra 14,775 old style ballot boxes to add to the 64,106 from the previous electoral process.

CIP in a special report says the CNE Resolution as illegal and calls for the intervention of both the Constitutional Council (CC) and the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) to force the CNE to comply with the law, in Portuguese, HERE.

Source: Centro de Integridade Pública - CIP Eleições