DRC elections: Congolese to use untested voting machines

After thousands of voting machines went up in flames last week in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Independent National Electoral Commission’s (CENI) staff were preparing untested voting machines on Monday (December 17).

The introduction of the untested tablet-like voting machines for the election has been widely opposed by opposition candidates but CENI believe the voting machines will facilitate, speed up and give reliable and truthful results in the long-delayed Dec. 23 presidential election.

They say the machines are more vulnerable to vote-rigging than paper and ink, and could be compromised by the unreliability of Congo’s power supply.