The mobile application that the Electoral Commission will use to transmit election results will increase transparency for polling and counting processes, according to an IT expert. Electoral Commission Software Technician Henry Wakit said the application which does not rely heavily on the internet is installed in a tablet with each electoral officer for the 111 open and regional electorates in the country.
He said the commission’s data coordinators will use the application on 24 hour shifts in the field to collect and report the progressive rates of results of the counting and elimination process.
These results as well as the scanned images of forms 66A and 66B – legal documents which are used to count and capture figures of votes from ballot papers after polling – are transmitted in real time to the central repository at the commission’s Headquarters in Port Moresby where they are verified and approved before being sent to media outlets and published on the commission’s website.
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