🔒 The IEC, which had its budget slashed by R300-million for this election, announced on Thursday that it would be conducting an audit of votes cast at a sample of voting stations to establish whether double voting did, in fact, occur. SAElections2019
The Independent Electoral Commission has come under fire for unprecedented irregularities in the 2019 national elections process.
Other complaints related to the indelible ink — used to prevent people from voting more than once — not working and a shortage of ballot papers at voting stations. Chief electoral officer Sy Mamabolo said the audit would cover a statistically representative sample of stations, and those where complaints of double voting were received.The commission at the moment can’t tell you [that] the extent was this or the other. That has to be determined through the scientific process,” Mamabolo said at a media briefing on Thursday.that this sort of auditing process was unprecedented. He lambasted the IEC’s failure to attend to logistical issues more decisively.
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