Despite smooth special voting, IEC worries about OR Tambo region's violence, assures security, and urges turnout.
Despite smooth special voting, IEC worries about OR Tambo region's violence, assures security, and urges turnout.
Addressing the media at the IEC results operations centre, IEC deputy chief electoral officer Masego Shiburi said the commission was able to open “the majority of voting stations in the Eastern Cape in the face of protests, which had nothing to do with“Of the 435 voting stations, which experienced problems in the morning, only 107 remain closed due to these external factors,” Shiburi said. He promised an intervention by the IEC and SA Police Service.
Eligible citizens, including the frail and senior citizens, were visited at home by election officials to enable them to cast their votes, while others joined short queues at polling stations.
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