As many South Africans fret over the seemingly dismal 2021 local government election turnout, the IEC said on Monday night that it was too early to tell just how good or bad the turnout was.
“I think it is the role of the media to continue to analyse, speculate and to project but from where we are sitting, we would like to remain as scientific as possible. So it might be at an early stage for the commission to make opinion, views and analysis,” said IEC chair Glen Mashinini at the national results centre in Pretoria on Monday night.
“It’s not that we are not noting your questions as to whether this raised matters of confidence and no confidence. Does it raise the issues of dismal performance or that there is a problem with the VMD? I think one thing we as South Africans have to really look at is that we are on a journey with the electoral system,” he said.
“Let’s get to closing because as you will recall every voting station will keep a complete record with every number that came to vote ... and those who lodged objections. In every election, the electoral commission does a survey, part of that is to ask people what challenges they have had.” Earlier during a press briefing at the national results centre, the media was told that people who were still in the queue by the cut-off time would be allowed to vote.
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