Results from each individual polling station are compiled by STAE, but they are no longer made public. Polling-station by polling-station results for 1994 were published in thick books.
For 1999 a CD was distributed (but with data only by polling centre such as a school, not by individual polling station.) For 2004 a CD with results for each polling station was distributed widely during the 2009 elections. But from then on the results were increasingly kept secret, although detailed results for 1994-2014 elections are posted on a special Bulletin website: http://bit.ly/MozElData
For 2009, a similar CD was produced five years after the election, but was not given to Mozambicans and only given to 2014 international observers (who gave this Bulletin a copy).
Why is this important?
Acting entirely in secret, and without ever reporting that they have done so, provincial elections commissions and the CNE do not count some polling stations. Sometimes there are unresolvable arithmetic errors on the results sheet (edital). In 1999 some results sheets had ink spilled over them. Some places such as Changara, Tete, are notorious for having every registered voter – plus a few more – actually vote, and in some years Changara polling stations have been excluded. Furthermore, this is often done by STAE and not the actual election commission, which itself may not be told. And these exclusions are never reported in any official document. Few other democracies would allow polling stations to be excluded in secret.
But five years after the election, when the CD became available, it was possible to compare polling stations on the CD with those on the official list of five years before, to see which ones had been left out. But, now, even the CD is secret.
