El Salvador votes must be recounted, says electoral court
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Incumbent Nayib Bukele claimed victory in El Salvador's presidential election on Sunday. But the president of the country's Supreme Electoral Court has ordered a recount due to technical problems.
Many of the votes cast in the presidential and parliamentary elections in El Salvador must be recounted due to technical issues, the president of the Supreme Electoral Court said on Monday.
Incumbent President Nayib Bukele already claimed victory on Sunday night and looked set to become the first Salvadoran president in almost a century to win a second term.
With 70% of the votes counted, Bukele, 42, had a comfortable lead with 83% by Monday morning. But since then, the electoral authority's electronic system has stopped updating, meaning that almost 30% of ballot boxes will have to be double-checked.
In the simultaneous parliamentary elections, the problems were even more serious, with only 5% of the votes counted before problems such as a duplication of votes when uploading data began to emerge.
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