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· Votes cast in this weekend’s presidential elections in the
West African state of Togo will have to be counted manually. It was
the overriding apprehension that the electronic vote-counting system
has been hacked, which led to this action by the country’s top
election watchdog.
· As per the latest report coming from Togo, the incumbent
President Faure Gnassingbe is the current president of Togo since 2005
is expected to return to power.
In a strange twist of things, votes cast in this weekend’s
presidential elections in the West African state of Togo will have to
be counted manually. It was the overriding apprehension that the
electronic vote-counting system has been hacked, which led to this
action by the country’s top election watch dog.
The head of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI)
Tchambakou Ayassor, observed that the complaint received from several
quarters should be looked into ameliorative measures were taken to
make the outcome of the election fair and transparent. It was not
known whether the votes were really hacked or only a heightened threat
of being hacked.
As per the latest report coming from Togo, the incumbent President
Faure Gnassingbe is the current president of Togo since 2005 is
expected to return to power. In the meanwhile, the Constitution was
amended to limit the term of the president to two, each term for a
period of five years. Since the amendment has only prospective effect,
the current president has the eligibility to run for one more term for
the office of the president, even after him being elected.
