The determination of voter addresses as required by the Constitutional Court is critical for next year’s local government elections
The Electoral Commission of SA has made significant progress in establishing the physical addresses of millions of voters as required by a Constitutional Court ruling, the commission’s chief electoral officer Sy Mamabolo told MPs on Monday.
Mamabolo said in a briefing to parliament’s home affairs portfolio committee that the IEC had so far finalised 23.4-million complete addresses of voters on the voters’ roll for the local government elections — 89% of the total — compared with the 8.6-million completed in 2016. What was required now was to locate the 23.4-million addresses in a particular ward.
The process of preparing for next year’s local government elections has also been delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Municipal Demarcation Board has announced that it has had to to call a halt to public consultations over the determination of municipal ward boundaries. It has only been able to complete four of the nine provinces and will not be able to complete the work by the August deadline for submission of the final wards to the IEC, Mamabolo said.
Mamabolo told MPs that the IEC had completed the process of drafting regulations under the Political Party Funding Act which was enacted in January 2019. This provides for the disclosure of private donations to political parties over R100,000, establishes a multiparty democracy fund for donors who want to support a range of political parties, and requires political parties to keep certain records of account.
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