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Darfur Administrative Referendum: Count of Votes Starts Thursday
14 April, 2016By: Aisha Braima
KHARTOUM (SUDANOW) - The count of votes of the Darfur administrative referendum started Thursday morning in all of the 1430 polling centers which are run by 2517 election committees.
The Official Sudan News Agency (SUNA) repored from west Sudan's Darfur region that the polling boxes were sealed at 06: PM Wednesday and the turnout exceeded 90% of the registered voters in the 500 polling centers of North Darfur, while the turnout exceeded 85% of the registered voters in West Darfur's 204 polling centers.
The count will be conducted in each center and monitored by about 100 international monitors who have monitored the voting process. They are from the African Union, Arab League, Russia, China, Kenya and Turkey, according to the Chairman of Darfur referendum commission Omar Ali Jammaa.
The results will be submitted to the headquarters of each state and then all the results will be sent to the National Referendum Commission which is to announce the final result either in favor of the five states or one-region system of the administration of Darfur region, SUNA said.
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