No one voted more than once - police.
The police say people who have been arrested for irregularities relating to elections never voted more than once.In an attempt to avert what could potentially be a disaster for the Independent Electoral Commission , the police have assured the nation that the 22 people who were arrested on suspicions of attempting to vote more than once were nabbed before they succeeded in their act.
In a media briefing on Friday evening, the police said some of these people had started the process of voting for the second time but the verification processes stopped them in their tracks as IEC staff at the voting stations managed to confirm that they had voted at different stations. IEC said that as part of its auditing process, it will receive a list of over 1000 voting stations from the statistician general that will form part of a technical assurance process that will, among other things, look into whether there were people who had voted more than once. This list will then be made available to the political parties.
"The electoral commission further welcomes the findings of a number of international and domestic observer missions that have endorsed our elections as free and fair and broadly reflective of the will of the people," said vice-chairperson Janet Love. Twenty-seven political parties lodged a complaint with the commission and had called for a complete re-run of the elections as they believed the issue of people being suspected to have voted twice contaminated the fairness of the polls.Judge Dhaya Pillay, who received the complaints from the parties, said she could not comment on the matter as it was sub-judice but commednded the parties for attempting to deal with this matter legally.
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