Women are goals as Electoral Commission reveals most new voters were young females
Mamabolo said 91% of those who registered to vote were young people between the ages 16 and 29.Of the total re-registered voters, most were from KwaZulu-Natal 358 384 and Gauteng registered 315 282 with the Eastern registering 240 514.
Mamabolo said the glitches had been corrected. He also indicated that back-up servers had been brought in to help cushion the volume experience online.The voters’ roll will be sealed from today following a proclamation of the elections on November 1 by Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.
Other steps to the elections timetable include a certification of the voters' roll on September 26. Candidate nomination certificates will be issued by October 1. The DA had brought the urgent application saying the IEC had erred when it decided to re-open the candidate nomination process.IEC commissioner Janet Love said: “We respect what the court has decided and have accepted that this is what should guide us for the future.”
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