Mongolia: Ruling party wants new elections with manual tallies: "In the parliamentary elections last Thursday a new automated voting system was used. The election before this where there was manual counting was marred by corruption allegations. Riots ensued in which several were killed.
However, the automated system has sufferred from technical problems. Results were supposed to be released within hours of the polls closing but still had not been released.
The governing Mongolian People's Party and another 8 smaller parties signed a petition claiming the new system violated the Mongolian constitution. The MPP secretary said:"We are demanding the traditional system of counting votes by hand in every election constituency across the whole country to end this confusion that the population has about the voting machines and automated systems," The main opposition group the Democratic Party refused to sign the petition. It feels that it will eventually win."
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