The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has hinted that next year's local government elections may be delayed due to Covid-19.
“We are happy to report that as regards to the complete addresses – a house number, street name, village number and so on - we now have 89% of what one could refer to as a complete address of all voters who are on the voters' roll,” said Mamabolo on Monday.
Critically, the commission has to link those 23.4 million addresses to geo-locational coordinates and then check that each address is in the correct ward count before the elections. A voter's address is much more critical in a local government election because the election is geographic based.
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