Registered voters who turned up to cast their ballots on Wednesday were met with snaking queues and technical glitches with the voter management devices.
JOHANNESBURG - The Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa has distanced itself from speculation that it had an intentional hand in slowing down the voting process on election day.
Moreover, there were throngs of voters still stuck in a queue at the Thokoza voting station, in Johannesburg – where there was a high concentration of South African Police Service members - before casting their votes.outside the voting station on Wednesday night: “I came here since 1pm but the line is not going. So, we don’t understand what is the problem here inside the voting station, because no one has come out to update us on what is happening.
On Thursday the first set of results started trickling shortly after 2am and we're reflected on the IEC's dashboard.Mamabolo could not indicate when vote counting would begin, and when the numbers would start reflection on the screens at the results centre. “Sealed ballot boxes are opened and emptied. Each ballot paper is unfolded facedown and checked for the Electoral Commission security stamp. Stamped ballots are considered valid. Unstamped ballots are invalid and are not counted toward the results,” explained Mamabolo.“We have always been able to declare and announce the results well within this period and will endeavour to do so with these elections.
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