The Constitutional Court is hearing oral arguments in the IEC’s application to temporarily shelve local government polls until February 2022 due to the CoronavirusPandemic
Political parties and independents have until Monday, August 23 to submit their nomination lists to the IEC in the designated 257 district and local offices across the country.
It also needs to prepare 4 468 unique ward ballots, which must be printed and packaged and then transported to the 249 sites to be further distributed to 23 151 voting districts. Following consultations with members of its national party liaison committee, the IEC moved the deadline for submitting candidate nominations from August 16 to August 23, due to the failure to hold a voter registration weekend last month.
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