Who's Afraid of Electronic Results Transmission?

IN THE ARENA
Transforming the electoral system apparently remains a Sisyphean task with some federal lawmakers ‘smuggling’ a clause into the Electoral Act Amendment Bill specifically barring electronic transmission of election results by INEC. Achi Louis writes
Gaming the electoral management system continues. Since the end of the Cold War, democratic elections have become almost a universal trend. Yet, in many countries, where elections are held, freedom and democracy are actually in retreat. Intended as mechanisms for the peaceful arbitration of political rivalries, they rather often become flashpoints for political violence.
At the core of these paradoxes are elections without integrity. All too often, elections serve merely to give autocratic regimes a coating of legitimacy. But fundamentally, elections without integrity cannot provide the winners with legitimacy, the losers with security and the public with confidence in their leaders and institutions.

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