SUDAN / KORDOFAN BALLOT COUNTING

Staff across various polling centres in South Kordofan State in southern Sudan began counting ballots today for the governor and state assembly elections which were held throughout the state this week. UNMIS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:29
• Production Date: 5 May 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION IN SUDAN - UNMIS
• Subject Topical: ELECTIONS
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U110505g

Description

STORY: SUDAN / KORDOFAN BALLOT COUNTING
TRT: 1:29
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC/ NATS

DATELINE: 4, 5 MAY 2011, KADUGLI, SOUTHERN KORDOFAN, SUDAN

Shotlist

5 MAY 2011, KADUGLI, SOUTHERN KORDOFAN, SUDAN

1. Wide shot, ballots being counted at polling centre
2. Various shots, ballots being counted
3. Med shot, observers
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Adam Abdin, Official from State High Committee:
“We have had observers from the start of the elections until the start of the counting and all the reports we have received show everything has gone on smoothly.”

4 MAY 2011, KADUGLI, SOUTHERN KORDOFAN, SUDAN

5. Wide shot, voting centre and polling officials and observers at a polling centre at the end of the polling process
6. Various shots, sealed ballot boxes and polling centre officials recording
7. Close up, ballot box being sealed
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salah Halima, Arab League Ambassador to Sudan:
“The elections have gone on smoothly and there was no insecurity.”
9. Wide shot, exterior of polling centre
10. Close up, polling centre flag

Storyline

Staff across various polling centres in South Kordofan State have began counting ballots for the Governor and State Assembly elections which were held throughout the state this week.

The polling staff, wearing orange vests, counted the ballots as alert party agents and observers, quietly watched.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Adam Abdin, Official from State High Committee:
“We have had observers from the start of the elections until the start of the counting and all the reports we have received show everything has gone on smoothly.”

Results will be tabulated at the polling centres before they are sent to the Constituency Elections Officers (CEOs). Once CEOs have received all results and materials from centres in their constituencies, they will perform a new tabulation for their constituencies.

After they announce the results there, they will take them to the next step, which is the State Elections High Committee.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salah Halima, Arab League Ambassador to Sudan:
“The elections have gone on smoothly and there was no insecurity.”

The elected legislature will oversee the State’s popular consultation process, which is intended to determine whether the country’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement has met the aspirations of Southern Kordofan citizens and resolve any outstanding concerns related to the accord’s implementation.

These elections, originally slated to have taken place concurrently with national elections in April 2010, were postponed over disputes arising from the 2008 census. They will be the last electoral event required by the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).

The United Nations Integrated Referendum and Electoral Division (UNIRED) offered technical and logistic assistance during the electoral process. Both local and international observers are expected to monitor the process as they did during polling.