The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has pledged to deliver transparent and credible results in the ongoing elections through the introduction of a live digital monitoring stream.

MEC Chairperson, Justice Annabel Mtalimanja, made the assurance on Tuesday during a press conference at the National Tally Centre in Lilongwe.

She said the initiative demonstrates the Commission’s commitment to ensuring that Malawians are able to follow real-time results being transmitted directly from polling centres.

“As MEC, we thought of using digital monitoring in these elections so that people are aware of what is happening in terms of electoral results,” Justice Mtalimanja said.

Meanwhile, the MEC has announced that voting at Mpata LEA in Nkolokoti Ward, Blantyre, will close at 8 p.m. tonight. This follows earlier disruptions after a ballot paper, suspected to have been pre-marked, was set on fire at the centre.

The MEC Chairperson also confirmed that 400 voters at Kalimbuka Primary School Centre in Thyolo, whose names were initially missing from the voter roll, successfully cast their ballots after their details were retrieved before polls closed at 6 p.m.

Justice Mtalimanja explained that the omission was due to some voter roll papers being left out during the printing process.