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Voting suspended at Kagangu Polling Station, Muramba Sub-county, Kisoro, after voters found names already ticked

Electoral Malpractice Verified Kisoro 22 Jan 2026 Severity: 2/5

According to the Daily Monitor, disorder broke out at about noon at Kagangu Polling Station when voters found their names already marked as having voted, some of them people living in Kampala. Police said preliminary investigations implicated the presiding officer and a polling assistant in pre-ticking the register and ballot stuffing; voting was suspended on the advice of the Kisoro District Electoral Commission office and two ballot boxes were taken as exhibits.

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