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EVM use challenged in Supreme Court elections challenge

EVM use challenged in Supreme Court elections challenge

Written by Simon Endjala on 17 January 2020.

WINDHOEK, 17 JAN (NAMPA) - The use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) without verifiable paper trails by the Electoral Commission on Namibia (ECN) during the November 2019 elections, came under fire in the Supreme Court on Friday.
At the beginning of the legal battle over the use of the EVMs and in his heads of argument, Advocate Jeremy Gauntlett attacked the provisions of Section 97 of the Electoral Act of 2004, which allows the ECN to use the machines without verifiable paper trails.
“The use of the ele ...

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