By Richard Chirombo
People have complained over the lack of latest information on the Electoral Commission's (EC) website.
Most of the people interviewed- aspiring members of parliament who did not make it during the May 19 elections, and political parties looking for official percentages of the national vote they amassed- have expressed disappointment of the development.
They say the EC should not behave as if the process was over, because there were things still to be done, including aggregating of votes to come up with percentages.
United Democratic Front lawyer, Fahad Assan, said the party was looking for EC's published aggregate results to confirm its assertion it was entitled to parliamentary funding since it attained 10 per cent of the votes.
Other people say the party can not because it has not attained 10 per cent of seats in parliament.
Assan said it was, thus, only the EC that could provide the final solution by providing the percentages of the national vote because, the way he knew it, it was the national vote, and not percentage of seats in parliament, that mattered.
His sentiments were echoed by Mathews Zimtambira Gama, who said he had been surfing the internet looking for latest results to no avail.
"These people are not serious. We need latest up dates on the elections, especially pertaining to the disputed votes and national aggregates. We want to know how much (percentage) political parties got," said Zimtambira Gama.
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