A man practices using an electronic voting machine during a demonstration inside Congo's electoral commission (CENI) head offices in Gombe Municipality of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 1, 2018.REUTERS/Robert Carrubba
DAKAR/NAIROBI (Reuters) - When election officials unveiled voting machines that resemble large tablet computers in Democratic Republic of Congo, they hailed them as the solution to a multitude of problems.
The new technology, they said, would cut costs, help reduce electoral fraud and accelerate the counting of votes in the vast central African country where past elections have been marred by voting irregularities or violence.
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