More than 93,000 "ghost" voters, who don't exist, had already been registered in Inhambane by April 20, a week before the end of registration, today, Sunday. According to the bulletin of the Center for Public Integrity (CIP), this number of registered voters is higher than the number of people of voting age in the province.

"Internal documents show that the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE) was making gross errors in the figures, or was lying to its own Provincial Electoral Commission (CPE) about the way it was managing the census," the document reads.

This year, according to CIP data, each parliamentary seat will correspond to approximately 60,000 voters, "which means that the ghosts already registered meant an extra seat for Inhambane in the Assembly of the Republic".

CIP's analysis further reveals that the internal documents of the STAE in Inhambane showed a strange error during the first five weeks of the census. "Their tables show the census by district and then a total at the bottom. But a closer look shows that the total is not the sum of the district numbers. For example, the report, up to March 30, refers to a total of 186,119 registered voters, but the sum of the 14 districts gives only 152,694."

"In reality, STAE was telling its bosses at the electoral commission that it was working hard and had registered 33,425 more people in the first two weeks than it actually had. The exaggeration of the real census continued until April 13. For the first time, in the April 20 report, the 'total' is really the sum of the district censuses," concludes the analysis.