Response to: ‘Zambia’s election was flawed and may need to be rerun’
Results in Zambia are recorded on Gen 20 forms, completed and posted publicly at each polling station in the presence of party agents and observers before anything travels anywhere.© GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP Published on August 19, 2026 at 11:54 am (GMT +1) In their article of 18 August, Professor Nic Cheeseman and Dr Nicole Beardsworth suggest that Zambia’s election was flawed and may need to be rerun.
Independent verification by Transparency International Zambia (TI-Z) found what the authors call a “very close correspondence” between the results announced by the electoral commission and those recorded by TI-Z’s own monitors, a match of 98.
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