While the counting of the votes has been slow, with only about 30% of the voting districts counted so far, the IEC believes it's making headway.
JOHANNESBURG – The African National Congress has breached the 1.7 million mark on the leaderboard at the results operation centre as the Electoral Commission of South Africa tallies the votes for the general elections.Only about 30% of the voting districts have been counted so far.The governing party is followed by the Democratic Alliance , which is also above the one million mark for supporters, as well as the Economic Freedom Fighters .
But political experts believe this still could change, with the eThekwini Municipality expected to boost the ANC’s numbers in KZN.Counting is expected to continue over the next few days.As of 8pm on Thursday, the commission said it had recorded 55.65% of the votes. During a media briefing earlier on Thursday evening at the national results operations centre in Midrand, IEC General Manager Granville Abrahams said the full results had not been reflected on its platforms yet as the commission was still ensuring their accuracy.
"To achieve accuracy we have various processes, the first one being the capturing of the results slip as received after being checked, the scanning of the same results slip as an image matched to that capture, and the auditing thereof. Those processes, with the lags in between them, give rise to the fact that we have 33.45% of the results reflected on the board."
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