If official election results processed by an electronic tabulation system, at which level results are entered into an electronic tabulation system?
Ghana
EU Election Observation Mission, Ghana General Elections, 2016, FINAL REPORT, accessed 27 September 2018
“On 26 November, just ten days before elections, the EC presented the complementary Election Results Management System to parties and other stakeholders. The in-house developed system for electronic results transmission from the constituency to national level was supposed to run parallel to the main manual collation system and boost transparency of the process by, among other things, displaying progressive results on screens in collation centres. However, the system was completed extremely late in the process and there was only very limited time available for field testing and staff training. During the collation process the system experienced several technical problems and instances of malfunctioning and consequently the EC decided on 8 December to stop using it, which caused consternation among stakeholders and a void of information at a critical juncture.”