Answer: The constituencies where the electorate cast vote for regional and national councils are different. Therefore, doing both at the same time would create confusion for voters. Election officials count the ballots and would send the result to the relevant constituency. In Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa, they count the ballots for different councils and would send the result to two or three constituencies. Reporting to different constituencies could open the door for errors in ballots counting and makes the election administration difficult. Moreover, election officials need to receive special training on counting and reporting results if they have to prepare them for different constituencies. That would increase the pressure on operations and it also needs preparing special result scoring papers and giving additional training to election officials.
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