Bulletins of the ink pens flying

At least 20,800 (twenty thousand eight hundred) ballot papers for the election of members of the provincial assemblies, which were contained in 26 boxes, were stolen from a lorry in the early hours from Thursday to Friday, at the intersection of Inchope zone in Manica province.By the end of Sunday, 5 October, this material still desaparecido.O Director-General of the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE), Philibert Naife, confirmed on Sunday afternoon to "Canalmoz" that the boxes were removed from inside a container that followed a truck rented by the electoral administration bodies, to transport the ballots that were intended for Zambezia province, specifically for Pebane and Namacurra."It's a small batch of the rest of newsletters that were intended to vote for members of the Provincial Assemblies in Zambezia. It was not large quantities, "said Philibert Naife, and explained that each box corresponds to a polling station. Under the current electoral law, each table has 800 Director General eleitores.O STAE also said the stolen reports may not be used in the October 15 elections, because their serial numbers also serve as security code . Therefore, any ballot paper with a wrong serial number is automatically rejected during counting at polling stations. However, STAE has ordered the production of news bulletins instead of lost.

When asked about another incident last week in which a truck with materials escorted by the PRM fell in Ile district when carrying ballot papers for the election of the President allegedly already marked with X in favor of the candidate Frelimo, Filipe Nyusi, the managing director of STAE confirmed the incident but said it was training materials, including newsletters simulation, and not as it was aired.About the ballots produced in South Africa, on which it says that the part where you can put the X concerning Renamo and Dhlakama is waterproof, so that by putting up the X, an hour later disappears becoming null vote, Philibert Naife said for that, "was a need for high-tech that neither the United States still has" and added that the production process involving all stakeholders, including the electoral bodies and political parties, who approved .In bulletins are supposedly waterproof square in regards to the candidate Dhlakama and Renamo, there are reports that the pens that will be introduced in the voting booths will be flying paint, and that the effect will only give the Renamo candidate .other information is that the ballots have the image of a single candidate, which is the only Frelimo, as happened in municipal elections in the city of Nampula, where candidates of other parties had no where to mark the X.Felisberto Naife considered that these claims are "fabrications moment." Information that circulated last week indicated that, contrary to what happened in the past, in which members of polling stations could meet their phones at the tables, to allow to maintain control, in these elections on 15 October the same can only answer calls away from the table, which raises suspicions that they are tricks that can allow ballot box stuffing during these ausências.Sobre this issue, the Managing Director of STAE explained that under the current electoral law, no member polling station, other than the President, is authorized to answer phone calls within or outside those meetings. "All are prohibited from making or answering phone calls during voting and vote counting tables or outside, other than the President" said Philibert Naife, on Sunday afternoon (5). (B.Álvaro)