The 774,094 voters registered to cast special votes will do so on Monday and Tuesday, and election material will be transported under SAPS escort.
Commissioner of the Electoral Commission of SA , Janet Love, yesterday said all election material would be transported from local warehouses to the 22,924 voting stations on Monday morning for the start of special votes that run until the following day.Love said all special votes cast on Monday and Tuesday would be stored overnight at a secure storage location before being transported to the voting stations on election day – May 8.
Voting stations will open from 7am until 9pm for the three days of voting. The stations would be manned by 189,000 election officials comprising volunteers. Voters whose addresses do not appear on the voters’ roll would have their addresses captured onto the IEC system on the spot to produce their address to the presiding officers.
The counting of votes will start immediately after the closing and the results slip will be signed by the presiding officers and party agents, who will be encouraged to take pictures of result slips to compare with the final outcome.
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