Commission assures the country that 97% of the results have been captured
According to Abrahams, 62 161 of the result slips have been captured and 53 209 of those have been scanned into an image and thus available.
Abrahams said the IEC remains committed to finalising the results expeditiously while taking care to ensure that all necessary verification is enforced. At a national political liaison committee meeting, according to Abrahams, it was agreed that the process must be explained and inform the country that all results have been transcribed onto result slips at the IEC’s local offices.
”These are independent auditors, it’s not the internal audit function of the IEC. It’s external, independent auditors, who then verify whatever is on the form is in fact what was captured in the system,” he explained.”The auditors have to do their work, it is essential that they do so independently without any pressure from the IEC,” he said.
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