Commissioner, Mosotho Moepya explains the vote counting process used to ensure the elections are free and fair.
JOHANNESBURG -The IEC is now preparing to count the votes.Commissioner, Mosotho Moepya explained the process used to ensure the elections are free and fair.
"They will start the process of verification. Party agents will look at ballot boxes. Counting officers will begin to present each one of those ballots boxes."They will begin to sort the ballots to the extent that there may be objections, there is also a process of dealing with those objections. Once that's sorted, then counting will begin."
South Africans came out in their numbers to cast their ballots on Wednesday, despite the rain and disruptions at some voting stations.
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