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Malawi vote counting system collapses

Malawi vote counting system collapses
Malawi's President Joyce Banda casts her vote at Malemia School Polling centre.

Blantyre, Malawi: Malawi election officials have had to resort to fax and email to tally votes from this week's election after the electronic system broke down, delaying the release of any results, the chief elections officer said Thursday.

The system "is refusing to take the information from the ground where our data clerks are stationed to send the results," chief elections officer Willie Kalonga told AFP two days after the vote.

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