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EISA Election Update: Namibia 2004, 3 ELECTION UPDATE 2004 NAMIBIA number 3 10 December 2004 contents Election Phase and Post Election Review 1 Introduction 1 Opening of the Polling Stations 1 Election Materials 2 Voting 4 Secrecy of the Ballot 4 Counting and Verification 5 Voter Turnout 5 Results & Certification 6 Analysis of the Presidential and National Assembly Results 9 Compiled by Phaneul Kaapama EISA Editorial Team Jackie Kalley, Khabele Matlosa, Denis Kadima Published with the assistance of NORAD and OSISA Election Phase and Post the electoral process as having delayed the on-schedule Election Review been free and fair, and finally it commencement of voting. will present an analysis of the These included problems with Introduction political bearing and trends that logging onto the computerized these results will have for voters register by some polling This briefing paper assesses Namibia in the short and officials, mainly resulting from Namibia’s third Presidential medium term. the heightened security features and National Assembly that were installed to preserve elections that took place from Opening of the Polling the credibility of these November 15-16 2004. Tthe Stations electronic systems. paper will be deliberating on the following key elements: The ECN put in place 1168 Other problems at polling station, elections fixed polling stations, most of Keetmanshoop in the southern materials, secrecy of the ballot, which opened their doors to the part of the country, included the as well as the voting, counting already waiting electorate at unavailability of the secret and results verification 07h00 on Monday 15 marking stamps required to processes. It will also focus on November 2004. However, a validate each and every ballot voter turnout, announcement of few hitches were experienced paper issued, and without the results, the certification of by some polling stations that which they cannot be election update 2004 N amibia number 3 considered valid and could not Britain was estimated at more complication emanated from be counted. As a result, voting than 20 000 voters, only 10 the fact that each polling station had to be delayed by three were said to have voted, the rest was not designated to deal only hours, and in the meantime were disenfranchised, not with the voters of that particular several voters were reported to because they did not want to constituency, but also a have left the polling station.1 vote, but rather due to the fact substantial number of tendered that they could not produce the voters, hence these particulars At Grootfontein in the central necessary documentation would also have to be checked northern part of the country, the required in order to vote.4 against the full national voters’ voting process was delayed by register. Secondly, supplying few hours due to a power Election Materials each station with a copy of the failure covering the whole register is a logistically town. While at Okakarara in the The Director of Elections is cumbersome exercise. central highlands, the only required to issue the Returning fixed polling station opened its Officers in charge of the Nevertheless, an electronic doors fifteen minutes late, due respective polling stations with voters’ roll was introduced at to the unavailability of police all the relevant equipment and approximately 300 polling officers to authorize the release materials required for the stations in urban constituencies of election materials that were smooth conduct of a credible across the country to speed up left at the police station for electoral process. Such the voting process. As expected overnight safekeeping.2 materials include polling in sharp contrast to past booths, ballot boxes, ballot elections, the electronic system The biggest delay was papers, instruments with used for tracing the names of witnessed by voters in London, official marks for stamping voters on the voters register UK, were eligible voters living ballot papers, sealed envelops expedited the whole voting there were expected to vote for containing the imprint of the process.This greatly contributed the first time. This resulted official mark, seals and lists of to the minimization of mainly as ballot papers and people removed from the roll.5 congestion in voting queues. secret stamps to mark their Since this system was only authenticity did not arrive in The following is an assessment introduced at certain polling time for the opening of the of the extent to which the ECN stations in urban areas, it polling station on Monday. in general and the Director of therefore came as no surprise According to the Director of Elections in particular fared in that polling stations in highly Elections, this resulted from fulfilling this important populated informal and rural inadequate arrangements made requirement: settlements experienced longer by those in charge of the queues due to the slow manual polling stations abroad. They The Voters Roll: process of tracking and failed to collect the parcels Under section 74 of the 1992 verifying the particulars on the containing election materials Electoral Act, each polling voters’ roll. 6 from the Heathrow station should have been International Airport.3 furnished with a copy of the Several stakeholders expressed Although provisions were made relevant portions of the national various concerns regarding the for eligible voters abroad to voters’ register, however on the accuracy of the voters’ roll for cast their voters, similar grounds of the following the 2004 Presidential and provisions were not made for practicalities this provision was National Assembly’s Elections. them to register. As a result annulled through the provisions These included doubts although the unofficial figure of of the 1994 Electoral regarding the accuracy of the potential eligible voters in Amendment Act: The first total number of voters featured on the voters roll, predicated upon the fact that according to 1 New Era Newspaper, Tuesday 4 New Era Newspaper, Wednesday the 2001 National Population November 16, 2004 November 17, 2004 and Housing Census, the total 2 New Era Newspaper, Tuesday 5 Electoral Institute of Southern November 16, 2004 Africa, A Handbook of Namibian 3 The Namibian Newspaper, Electoral Laws and Regulations, 6 New Era Newspaper, Tuesday, Wednesday, November 17, 2004 1999, pp. 43 – 44 November 16, 2004 2 election update 2004 N amibia number 3 population of Namibia stood at more than once.9 Furthermore, stations; were all met prior to 1.8 million, of which fifty one it was discovered on the the allocation of the tender.11 percent (51%) were said to be commencement of voting that below the age of seventeen (17) names of several people who The ECN also came under years, hence charging that the could present the Polling criticism for opting to print 3,6 figure of 977 742 has been Officers with the voter million ballot papers - 1,2 inflated. These concerns registration cards were not on million for each of the three however, were dismissed by the the voters’ roll. These included elections. It was further alleged ECN on the grounds that an some prominent political that some ballot boxes bore the analysis of the 2001 Population personalities such as the same number, and that political Census reveals that the total Governor of the Omaheke parties were not informed as to number of the group aged 15 – region and Mayor of Gobabis in how many seals were produced 17 years by August 2001, and the eastern parts of the country. for the elections by the ECN.12 who would have become In these cases, Presiding eligible to register and vote in Officers at the polling station During the actual voting 2004 was 123 124. Based on concerned were forced to use process, some political parties these statistics, the number of their discretion to allow such also bemoaned the fact that the people who would have voters to cast their votes.10 ballot papers were not punched qualified to be on the voters roll as agreed with the ECN. They should have been 1 079 503. Some political parties also further claimed that the number The shortfall of 101 761 reiterated their concerns that of ballot papers per ballot book therefore accounts for those that thirty per cent (30%) of the varied and hence this people who did not register on names on the voters’ roll contributed to what they termed account of citizenship, represented those who could the state of confusion; in the migration, death or from sheer not identify themselves and sense that some books choice.7 therefore registered themselves contained more or less than 100 as voters by way of sworn ballot papers.13 The ECN further noted through statements. an Official Public Statement Indelible Ink that during the 1994 elections, Ballot Boxes and Papers The indelible ink that was the total number of registered Several political parties supposed to have been applied voters was 654 189, which expressed their uneasiness that to identify those persons who increased to 878 869 in the the tender for the printing of had already voted, easily 1999 elections. The voters’ roll over a million ballot papers was washed off. This is said to have for the 2004 therefore awarded to NAMPRINT, a contributed to the creation of a witnessed a meagre increase of local company with close links potential loophole that may 11.25 per cent compared to that to the ruling SWAPO Party. have allowed some people to of 1999 which stood at 34.3 per The ECN defended its decision vote more than once. Due to cent.8 by pointing out that this this concern, the Republican company had previously Party (RP) indicated
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