If anyone ever thought there would be a frenzied evening of vote counting culminating in the result around 10pm followed by the acceptance\/concession speech by the winners and losers, it aint gonna happen here.<\/p>\n
The local media play a pretty minor role in the collection, aggregation and dissemination of election results and the electoral authority don’t exactly make it easy either.<\/p>\n
It looks like counting will take 3 to 5 days.\u00a0 About 10% of votes have been counted by Sunday evening.\u00a0 Dili vote counting has not even started yet.<\/p>\n
Why, you ask.\u00a0 Its all to do with the voting system.\u00a0 The new voting rules put in place for these elections almost makes it mandatory to have all ballot boxes received in district counting centres before counting can start.\u00a0 And there is a huge rigmarole associated with removing ballot papers from boxes, unfolding them (they are probably folded about 6 times so they can fit into the ballot box slot), grouping them into lots of 50 and randomising them.\u00a0 And this happens before you even start counting.<\/p>\n
Rupert would be most annoyed by the lack of ratings potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If anyone ever thought there would be a frenzied evening of vote counting culminating in the result around 10pm followed by the acceptance\/concession speech by the winners and losers, it aint gonna happen here. The local media play a pretty … Continue reading