Forty-eight political parties would contest the elections, while 76 parties would contest both nationally and provincially.
The Electoral Commission of SA said yesterday that a rumour to the effect that if a registered voter does not vote, their vote automatically goes to the governing party, was just political blackmail.
Mosery was at pains to clarify that a rumour circulating across the country and on social media that a registered voter’s vote would automatically go to the governing party if they – the voter – abstained from taking part, was false. Ballot papers would be different this year. The format has been changed following complaints that the proximity of the governing ANC and the African Independent Congress on previous ballot papers created confusion.
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