Court Upholds Results Of Namibia Presidential Election.
Namibia’s top court on Wednesday dismissed an opposition bid to overturn last year’s general election over the use of paperless electronic voting machines.
Opposition parties in December petitioned the Supreme Court to annul the results and order fresh polls, claiming the use of electronic voting machines without a verifiable paper record was unconstitutional. President Hage Geingob, 78, secured a second five-year term in the November poll with a hugely diminished majority of 56 percent compared to 87 percent in the previous polls in 2014.
The ruling South West Africa People’s Organisation , which has been in power since Namibia’s independence from South Africa in 1990, also retained its majority in parliament.“Applicants have not shown that the absence of a verifiable paper trail has adversely affected their fundamental right to vote.”
While upholding the outcome of the 2019 election, the judges nonetheless ruled in favour of paper trails for future ballots.Runner-up candidate Panduleni Itula, who led the court challenge, welcomed the ruling, even though the election result was confirmed.“It is not the end of me or the end of the thought process,” Itula added.Itula had unsuccessfully petitioned against the machines before the elections, claiming the absence of paper records raised the risk of fraud.
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