Pretoria ready to dispatch voting material for South Africans to vote abroad
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation said the Electoral Commission of South Africa has met logistics for dispatching election materials.
The DA recently won its case against the Electoral Commission of South Africa to ensure that there will be more voting stations abroad in 2024. The department said it uses diplomatic bags to dispatch official documents and articles to and from South Africa in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963.
It said:"Dirco's failure to plan for the timely renewal of this critical service has now led to interim, short-term contracts being awarded on an ad hoc basis, where money can be found and internally re-appropriated."Diplomatic bags are required to send ballots to missions abroad, are only counted once received by the IEC in South Africa.
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