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Sudan extends voting for two days due to administrative mistakes in some polling stations
By African Bulletin on April 13, 2010
Sudan’s National Elections Commission (NEC) has announced it would grant a two-day voting extension until Thursday due to administrative and technical mistakes in some polling stations.“The NEC, following an emergency meeting, decided to extend the voting period for two days, to end on Thursday, April 15,” NEC spokesman Salah Habib said.
The decision came after a lot of technical and administrative mistakes were found during the first two days of the general elections, the first multi-party election held in this African country in more than two decades.
Meanwhile, NEC press adviser Abu Bakr Waziri said the decision to extend the voting from three days to five was based on “objective justifications.”
“The NEC has taken the decision on basis of objective justifications that appeared during the first day of the polling process,” Waziri said.
“The decision was also meant to enable supporters of the political parties to easily access the polling stations,” he said, adding that it was also intended to ensure a high polling percentage.