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Friday January 15 2021
A man casts his ballot at a polling station on Luwum Street in Kampala City yesterday. PHOTO / ERIC DOMINIC BUKENYA
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Ugandans yesterday flocked polling stations across the country to elect a president and Members of Parliament amid a total Internet shutdown.
The shutdown, which was ordered by government, crippled access to real time information about the voting process in different parts of the country. 
During a press conference on Wednesday, the Electoral  Commission (EC) chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama, said the relaying and tallying of results would not be affected by the Internet shut down. He revealed that the commission would use other systems to transmit the results. Efforts to get a clear explanation from the Commission about the said system were futile. ....

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