The Democratic Alliance (DA) has reportedly been informed that its votes to elect a new speaker in the City of Tshwane did not align with the IEC's guidelines. 👀 Tshwane Politics ActionSA DA Read more below 🔽
According to DA councillor Cilliers Brink, the party had instructed their members to mark ballots with allocated numbers in order to identify which candidate they voted for.This meant Morodi would have won by 106 votes if the disqualified votes were counted.The DA and its coalition partners – Action SA, Inkatha Freedom Party , African Christian Democratic Party and Freedom Front Plus – have since expressed their dissatisfaction about the vote’s outcome.
“During the counting process the DA, ActionSA and FF Plus party agents pointed to the fact that the 69 ballots clearly indicated the intention of voters. There was no confusion or ambiguity in the markings. Neither were any ballots defaced. The IEC classified the 69 votes as spoilt based on the fact that they were marked not with a crosses but with numbers.
“What the DA did was unlawful. The IEC has individual requirements that if a voter’s identity is disclosed on the ballot paper, the vote is spoiled. It was not a clever strategy so there will be no litigation,” a party leader close to the coalition toldThe IEC believed that the process was “compromised” after councillors from the African National Congress and the Economic Freedom Fighters stormed the voting area, grabbed a ballot box.
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