A war of words over the integrity of Fiji's electoral system has culminated in opposition parties calling for ballot counting to stop and for the military to intervene.
The provisional tally uploaded to the election's result app was taken offline for a number of hours on election night.Fiji's supervisor of elections has hit back at claims the electoral process lacks integrity.
Some candidates subsequently recorded an unusually high number of votes. The data was then wiped and uploaded again.Fiji's Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem said there had been a glitch when data was transferred to the result's app and it mismatched results to different candidates.Mr Rabuka said the explanation was inadequate, with similar glitches or power outages that resulted in a boost to government votes at each of the past two elections.
Mr Saneem said he had always been open that there could be errors in the provisional results, which are called in from voting stations. "Conspiracy theories have gone to an extent where political leaders are coming up and asking for intervention in the electoral process simply because their own general secretaries failed to update them on what's going on," he said.Mr Rabuka - a former prime minister and 1987 coup leader - said he would also write to the military commander and ask him to use his powers under the constitution to intervene and oversee a fair count.
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