Highlights: DRC elections: training in Ituri to help voters use voting machines. In Bunia, Ituri, in the east of the country, it is organising training for voters. Each election scrolls on the screen until the municipal elections. The machine then prints the paper ballot, and the voter places it in the ballot box. Once the polling stations are closed, the ballots will be counted and the digital results saved on USB sticks to be handed over to the local Results Compilation Centre. It is the same machine used in the 2018 elections.

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DRC elections: training in Ituri to help voters use voting machines

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, we are at D-1 before the general elections on 20 December. It is therefore time for the final preparations for the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI). In Bunia, Ituri, in the east of the country, it is organising training for voters, because the election will also be digital.

In Bunia, Ituri, eastern DRC, the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) trains voters in the use of voting machines on December 18. © RFI/Gaëlle Laleix

By: RFI Follow

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With our special correspondent in Bunia, Gaëlle Laleix

The DEV electronic voting device is the same machine used in the 2018 elections, but a reminder is not a luxury. Jean is 80 years old. He has already been through a few elections. But tomorrow's election intimidates him because of the voting machine: "How am I going to do it? You have to help me. The first, I was told, is voting for the president. How many presidents are there? »

Voters enter the voting booth with a paper ballot. There, they slide their ballot into the machine and digital voting begins. "It's going to scan the ballot," explainsNathanael, an agent of the CENI.

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It says QR code absent... " says one voter.

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We do the exercise, we keep going. We have the ballot here, which is identified. You see the list of presidential candidates. For example, you can choose a number, a woman. I confirm that I choose it. After that, I move on to the national parliamentary elections."

Each election scrolls on the screen until the municipal elections. The machine then prints the paper ballot, and the voter places it in the ballot box. Jacques Luatanga, a shopkeeper, enthusiastically welcomes this modernity. "Even the phones we use today are machines," he says. So, we're going to adapt as well. We have confidence in our government. We are also obliged to trust the machines that the government has brought us." Once the polling stations are closed, the ballots will be counted and the digital results saved on USB sticks to be handed over to the local Results Compilation Centre.

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DRC elections: training in Ituri to help voters use voting machines

DRC elections: training in Ituri to help voters use voting machines

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