Editorial| Immediately after these elections, the IEC needs to do a proper postmortem, learn from these mistakes and ensure that its hitherto impeccable reputation is restored.
When political parties spend money to register to contest elections, they do so with an expectation that, whatever the problems they will encounter attracting the electorate to vote for them, the IEC is not one of those problems.
Congress of the People MP Deidre Carter said she became aware that the indelible ink could be removed, allowing a person to vote at more than one station. Problems identified for this round of voting included the easy removal of ink from thumbs, scanners which were broken and the inability to come up with an alternative to new smart card IDs, on which stickers cannot be attached.
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