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How Internet shutdown impacted poll process

Daily Monitor Friday January 15 2021 A man casts his ballot at a polling station on Luwum Street in Kampala City yesterday. PHOTO / ERIC DOMINIC BUKENYA Advertisement Ugandans yesterday flocked polling stations across the country to elect a president and Members of Parliament amid a total Internet shutdown. The shutdown, which was ordered by government, crippled access to real time information about the voting process in different parts of the country.  During a press conference on Wednesday, the Electoral  Commission (EC) chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama, said the relaying and tallying of results would not be affected by the Internet shut down. He revealed that the commission would use other systems to transmit the results. Efforts to get a clear explanation from the Commission about the said system were futile.

2021: Tracking voter bribery

“The second respondent personally or through his agents, with his knowledge, consent or approval, offered or caused to be offered to registered voters various gifts including, but not limited to, money, cosmetics, steamers, foodstuffs, cows and footballs with a view of procuring voters to vote for him,” Kivumbi’s petition reads in part. BREAKING THE LAW The EC was accused of failing to deter Kikulukunyu from breaking the law and therefore “compromised the principles of impartiality and transparency when it failed to restrain the second respondent from carrying out illegal activities during the campaign period.” Ultimately, court nullified the election. Muwanga Kivumbi won the by-election held on September 12, 2012. Article 68 of the Parliamentary Elections Act, 2005, stipulates that “A person who, either before or during an election with intent, either directly or indirectly, to influence another person to vote or to refrain from voting for any candidate, gives or pro

What Museveni s absence from constituencies means for NRM flag bearers

Daily Monitor Sunday January 10 2021 Shortly after the opening of Busia market, President Museveni was compelled to address a crowd that converged outside the market. Mr Museveni, the presidential candidate of the ruling National Resistance Movement’s (NRM), had his face mask on and stood a distance away from crowd, but a majority of those in the crowd did not have masks and were not practicing social distancing for which Mr Museveni and the NRM took quite a bashing. An appearance such as was witnessed in Busia Town was one of the very few where Mr Museveni was visible to the ordinary folk since November 9 last year when he kicked off his re-election campaign. 

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