Board making preparations for student voting
in Jimma and Alemaya universities

17 May 2005

Election materials are being dispatched to polling stations in Jimma and Alemaya universities where students were unable to vote on May 15 due to logistical problems.

“The NEBE is dispatching the election materials as per the lists of required ballot papers it had received from the universities and the students will be able to vote in the coming two days,” said Tesfaye Mengesha, Deputy Head of the NEBE Secretariat.

The Secretariat has also been receiving reports about a few polling stations in the country where voting did not take place on May 15 for a variety of reasons, Tesfaye said. Voting in these areas would also be conducted in a few days, pending a decision by the Board.

“The Secretariat has begun receiving the results of the polls in higher learning institutions in Addis Ababa and expects to get constituency results as of tomorrow, May 17,” he said. Provisional results will be made public as soon as they arrive.

Tesfaye said Complaints Committees at polling station and constituency levels have been receiving and deliberating on complaints lodged by parties.

According to the NEBE complaints handling procedures, complaints related to voting should be submitted to polling stations within five hours of the problem. Complaints about counting must be made to the constituency electoral office within 48 hours of the polling station results reaching the constituency electoral office.

If the decisions given by polling stations and constituency election offices are objected to, a further complaint can be lodged with the NEBE. The NEBE’s decisions can be appealed to the Federal High Court.

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