KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The IOC has decided to vote by paper ballots after problems with the electronic voting in the choice for the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
The members had voted with new tablets in the election between Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan.
But after the vote was declared closed, IOC director general Christophe De Kepper told the delegates that there had been “interferences with changes of tablets” and that scrutineers “are not comfortable with the integrity of the vote.”
De Kepper said the vote would be re-run using paper ballots, which is a much lengthier procedure.
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