Mozambique: Election Results Approved by 9-7 Vote

The national elections results were only approved by the National Elections Commission (CNE) in a narrow 9-7 vote early Thursday morning. The seven opponents demanded that votes be recounted at the polling stations where there was a a different number of voters in the three elections and that the invalid votes (nulos) be checked (requalified).

A common fraud is to take ballots for the opposition and simply put them in the pile of nulos. Requalification is checking the invalid votes and giving back…