Recommendation 6 (Polling, Counting and Publication of Results) Timor-Leste 2012
http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/pacific/TL/timor-leste-final-report-parliamentary-elections/at_download/file
It would greatly increase the transparency of the counting process if STAE allowed copies of results sheets signed by the Voting Centre Presidents and Polling Station Secretaries to be given to all party agents present during the counting. An explicit requirement in the regulations that party agents and observers present in the district tabulation centres have access to the reception, verification, reconciliation and digitisation of the voting centre results sheets would diminish the scope for arbitrary rulings on the layout of tabulation centres and would greatly enhance the credibility of the tabulation. The EU EOM suggests that the electoral authorities adopt the practice of publishing on its website the election results broken down to voting centre level, or polling stations in the future, as soon as the final results are certified by the court, to enhance the transparency of the electoral process. More generally, STAE and CNE could increase public awareness and oversight if they devoted more resources to the prompt publication on their websites of new regulations, decisions and initiatives.
