New technology not to blame for low voter turnout – IEC - The electoral commission acknowledged tech hiccups, but said the biggest problem was the limited time frame it had in which to organise the elections
) said on Monday night that having a shorter period than usual in which to prepare for the local government elections had resulted in some voters not being able to cast their ballots.
The IEC had, however, ensured that these voters, who had submitted their particulars during the registration weekend in September, would still be allowed to cast their ballots, Abrahams said. “We had problems … of uploading them onto the live file, but we have ascertained … that, as at 5pm [on Monday 1 November] 35 000 of those voters had voted already, which leaves us with a residual of 32 000 voters. Of those 32 000, only 6 000 were scanned on these [voter management] devices and they were not issued with their ballots,” Abrahams said.
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