Action SA is planning to take the IEC to court after it failed to undertake to address its concerns over the draft ballot papers for the local government elections
said the party’s lawyers had said there was no legal basis for the commission to refuse to remedy the situation.
Action SA complained that the IEC’s draft ballot paper had only the party’s logo, with a blank space where its name should have been.In his statement, Beaumont accused the IEC of breaching its overarching responsibility to ensure free and fair elections, saying voters must be able to identify a political party in the ballot papers in many ways including the party logo, name, acronym and party leaders.
“There is no provision in law which limits or empowers the IEC to rely solely on the party’s registration documentation for the construction of ballot papers — our law remains silent on what information goes into a ballot paper. In the absence of such provisions of legislation the IEC must act in the interests of free and fair elections and administrative justice,” he said. “Our brief time as a political party has been beset by issues with the IEC.
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