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Statement On General Elections 2004 By PACENET Election Observers Mission Blantyre, May 21, 2004

INTRODUCTION
We Election Observers under PACENET from DRC, Zimbabwe and Botswana, we wish to make this statement following our observation Mission during the Malawi 2004 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections.

We observed the elections during polling and after polling before the announcement of the official results.
The purpose of our mission was to verify the voting, counting process and accuracy of the results. It is unfortunate that we did not verify the accuracy of the tabulation of the results due to delayed counting results in some polling centres.

DEPLOYMENT AND GEOGRAPHICAL AREA COVERED
The mission was in three teams and it covered the southern region of Malawi in the districts of Mulanje, Zomba, Machinga, Blantyre, Mangochi, Balaka, Nsanje, Chikwawa, Phalombe and Thyolo. It sampled Thirty-one (31) polling centres in rural, semi-urban and urban areas.

PRELIMINARY FINDINGS
From the period and areas covered we observed the following:

RECOMMENDATIONS
Based on the findings we therefore recommend that in the future:
CONCLUSION
The Mission is of the view that the process of polling it observed was free. It is the wish of the mission that the recommendations suggested are seriously considered for future elections.