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ANC party chairman Gwede Mantashe seemed in no mood for trifles as he was hauled over for an interview at the Tshwane Results Operating Centre on Thursday evening.
As it happens, evidence of multiple voting has been presented and thus far 20 people have been arrested. Mantashe went on to say that he had no "reason to question the professionalism of the IEC". But probably the most important point he made was when he emphatically said of the arrests, "We don’t need to make it our issue here. Let’s watch the results coming in, deal with them and... sit here and continue working".
No election in the world is perfect whether paper-based or electronic. One need only look at the 2016 US election to see that this is the case - from long queues to equipment failure - it was all there. In addition, the 2000 Florida recount famously gave us a whole new lexicon on ‘hanging chads’.
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