As results continued to stream in on Wednesday with talks of coalitions, hung municipalities and lost ground, some parties have reacted to their performance so far:
United Democratic Movement’s treasurer-general Thandi Nontenja expressed concern that most of their voters were turned away from voting stations, calling the Electoral Commission of South Africa “careless”.
“Most of our voters were calling in and turned away from the voting stations because of the carelessness which they called technical glitches. To me that is carelessness because people were registered. It is a concern to us, while the IEC is playing it down. We were inundated by calls from people who were turned away, that is our main problem with the IEC at the moment,” she said.
“We feel that the IEC when they went to court to apply for the postponement of the elections they knew that they were not ready,” said Nontenja.The African Independent Congress councillor Margaret Arnolds expressed her party’s disappointment with the IEC’s performance.“People not being on the voter’s roll, that is proof of work not being done on time and shows that it was a rush-rush. We are hopeful that we will come out and retain what we had, and maybe gain in other places.
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