Carter Center Statement
***Photo Mvemba Phezo Dizolele — Pygmy voting in Wenji-Secli, Equateur
Amidst all the brouhaha about fraud allegations and the Court’s verdict, let us take a look at the Carter Center’s findings. According to its third statement about the election runoff, the Carter Center has found evidence of significant abuses of electoral procedures committed in favor of both candidates, including:
the abuse of supplemental voter lists through the excessive and irregular exploitation of voting by exemption
faulty implementation of the lists of omitted voters
questionably high turnout rates in some areas
These abuses occurred primarily in certain regions of the country and, while they were important in principle, the overall number of votes resulting from them is not of a decisive scale. The manipulation we have found was perpetrated by supporters of both candidates and the geographic distribution of the abuses did not benefit one candidate significantly over the other.
The Carter Center’s concerns regarding the use of votes by exemption, and relating to voter participation rates, as well as our analysis of the lists of omitted voters and recorded blank and invalid ballots, are explained in further detail.
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