Publication of standard operating procedures for compilation, collating and transmission of results in terms of section 37C of the Electoral Act 43. The Electoral Act provides for the compilation, transmission and collation of results from every polling station within a ward to various centres depending on whether the returns are for local authority, national assembly or the presidential election. Whilst the Act provides where any returns must be transmitted to, and specifically provides for personal transmission in the case of a polling station to a ward centre, there is no such specific provision for transmission from the ward centre to the constituency centre. The Act merely places an obligation on the wards election officer to cause to be transmitted the returns, without specifying the mode of transmission. 44. In that respect, it is clear that the Act does not stipulate the actual procedures through which ward election officers are expected to transmit the results to constituency centres. This also applies to transmission to provincial command centre and the national command centre. There is obviously no clarity on the mode of transmission of the returns, specifically whether the transmission will be electronic or personal. All these are issues for which the First Respondent must publish standard operating procedures, in line 19