The Electoral Act should be amended to provide more detailed provisions for voting, counting and collation procedures. These should include:
(i) a requirement for results to be publicly displayed at polling stations immediately after counting has been completed;
(ii) a requirement for copies of official result forms to be distributed to all involved stakeholders. including political parties, candidates and observers.
(iii) a requirement for detailed results broken down to polling station level to be publicly displayed at all superior levels of the election administration;
(iv) a requirement for INEC to swiftly publicly display, including on its website, detailed results of the elections, including all polling station results as well as collated information on the number of voters, votes cast, invalid votes etc.
(v) a requirement for results to be officially announced within a time limit of three days;
(vi) a requirement for voters, political parties and observers to be able to request a recount of ballots at polling station level when irregularities have been identified;
(vii) a requirement for INEC to be able to order a recount of ballots at polling station level if it is established that the law was violated; and
(viii) provision of clear grounds and authority to INEC to annul election results.