🗳️GOOD says by-elections in George Municipality are 'brazenly stolen' after losing 3 seats to DA and PA. politicsinsa sapolitics elections TheCitizenNews Read the story⬇️
GOOD secretary-general Brett Herron on Thursday said papers were being prepared to challenge the results in court and also seek sanctions against the DA.“We are deeply disappointed that the IEC has been unable, or unwilling, to detect suspicious voter registration patterns based on the unusually high number of new voter registrations for a by-election.
“It is also astounding that the online voter registration system can be abused by political parties to re-register eligible citizens in wards where they do not live, and the IEC is unable to detect this. “GOOD will file that objection within the 48-hour period that section 65 of the Municipal Electoral Act provides for.”The voting outcome shows that the DA won wards 27 and 16, with the PA bagging ward 20.and then re-joined the party in time for the by-elections, could not retain his ward 27 on Wednesday.“They stole ward 16. We were robbed, those [results] are not a true reflection of the will of the voters of ward 16, the truth shall come out soon,” he posted on the PA’s page.
While the DA denied all allegations, the IEC is yet to respond to claims of irregularity from the PA and GOOD. The DA has now increased its seats to 28 in George, which has a total of 55 seats. It formed a coalition with the Freedom Front Plus after the 2021 local polls.GOOD won three ward seats and three PR seats in 2021. It’s now left with three PR seats.
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