Confusion after aged are turned away for special votes because names are ‘missing from IEC list’

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Confusion after aged are turned away for special votes because names are ‘missing from IEC list’
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A DA candidate for ward 23 in Ekurhuleni has asked how free and fair the local government elections will be after hundreds of residents in retirement villages in the area were not able to cast their special votes this weekend. LGE2021

du Plessis asked this question after hundreds of elderly residents in three retirement villages in the Benoni area were denied the right to cast their special votes.

A resident at the Norton Park Retirement Village, Sabine Dresen, detailed how they could not cast their special votes on Saturday and Sunday. “Then we got a message to say they were not coming back and we were to go the Lady Fatima church to vote there.

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