Follow the action of today's big polls to decide who governs the country and each of its nine provinces for the next five years.
An elderly couple is seen casting their votes at the Capital Park Primary School voting station, 8 May 2019, Pretoria. Picture: Jacques Nelles
Voting got off fairly well early Wednesday although unrest in protesting communities in provinces such as Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal and North West caused glitches. Government said the department of home affairs’ offices would be open until 9pm to help those without identity documents. ”In Cape Town, this problem was caused by officials distributing less ballots than what the stations were entitled to. We have issued an instruction once more for ballot papers to be provided to all stations experiencing shortages…there will be no shortage of voting material including ballot papers. Around 62 million ballot papers were printed by the IEC,” Shiburi told reporters at the national elections results centre in Pretoria.
“Efforts to resolve these and provide voters in these areas with an opportunity to exercise their democratic right to vote are continuing and will continue for as long as is necessary,” said the IEC in a statement. The commission also confirmed there had been instances of voters trying to vote more than once after removing the ink on their thumb nails, and said they would be prosecuted.
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