Results of the 2014 POPS election have been delayed due to a record high voter turnout, according to the Park Election Office.
The election was held yesterday and this is the first time since 2003, when POPS elections were established, that results have not been announced the following morning.
In a statement released early this afternoon, PEO head Gerritt Wezel acknowledged that his office was unprepared for the numbers of Animals who turned out to cast their vote this year.
“We did not anticipate this degree of interest in the POPS election and we simply do not have the Animalpower, in terms of counting the votes, that would enable us at this time to project the winner with any accuracy,” the statement said.
Wezel confirmed to The Mammalian Daily this evening that he had left his staff go home to sleep and that the vote counting would resume tomorrow morning at 9:00.
