For greater transparency, and to allow people to have access to interim results from all voting stations, results counted and available at the end of election day/s can be posted on a wall/chalkboard/spreadsheet at each local office of the electoral management body .
This allows the media and the public to see the interim results as they come in, if no periodic report is available to be provided to them.
On voting night, interim results should be counted for each candidate or party for each voting station. The local office of the electoral management body will compile these results and create a summary report per candidate or political party to send to the national electoral management body. They will then count the total electoral district results per political party or candidate and indicate these to be the final interim results when forwarding the summary to the national office of the electoral management body.
After the final count, the national office will receive the official final results from each voting station and compile them into a national publication.
In all cases, a double counting procedure should be used, even if it is computerized, before the results are publicly posted.
After each five to ten voting stations, a comparison should be made between the two persons responsible for the counts. If results no longer match, the previous few additional figures can easily be verified and corrected.
If a computerized system is used, two people should enter the same data at separate computer workstations. The computer systems can be programmed to immediately point out when and where entries do not match exactly for a specific voting station. This makes the process of verification much simpler.
