In the city of Nampula there are difficulties in using results sheets (editais) that are not properly stamped and signed. There are polling stations with two conficting editais. For example, at polling station 04, in EP1 Nahene, there is an edital that Renamo believes to be false, in which Frelimo obtained 592 votes.
editais that Renamo believes to be false, in which Frelimo obtained 592 votes. For the same polling station, there is another Indeed, there are polling stations in Nampula where Frelimo obtained more than 800 votes, out of a register with 800 voters. These are with votes in favour of Frelimo, whose details are different from those on the notices posted in the polling stations.
In Mozambique there are two ways to steal votes. One simply putting extra paper ballots in the box. This we cannot check. But the other is to inflate the totals after the counting is done. During the count the tabulation is recorded on the classroom blackboard as the presiding officer calls out each vote. The blackboard represents the true count but is often erased as soon as the count finishes. The final official results sheet, the , often has extra votes for Frelimo. This happened in Marromeu.
So far, we have parallel count reports from 28 of 41 polling stations in Marromeu. Of the 28, 11 are clearly inflated, raising the Frelimo vote by 2944 ghost voters. It is easy to do local comparisons, because in every school some polling stations are inflated and other have reported honestly. The most extreme case is a polling station 25 June school with a 98% turnout and 758 votes for Frelimo, compared to 316 on the blackboard.There was a problem processing your submission.
First, the police used tear gas to push the local population home. The police ended up shooting three citizens with real bullets in an attempt to calm the tempers of the vendors in the Central Market. The police closed the central market on"superior orders", which created discontent among the vendors and further unrest. Two women were injured, a dried fish vendor who was shot in the buttock and a pregnant woman who was shot in the upper limb. A young man was also shot in the buttock.