South Africa
IEC says ‘no evidence’ of double voting as election results still stream in─── 10:29 Fri, 10 May 2019
Despite a raft of complaints, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of SA said on Friday morning that it could find “no evidence” that anyone has voted twice in this year’s elections.
The IEC’s commissioner was discussing the results of their investigation in the midst of an audit, which was requested by, among others, the DA.
This comes despite numerous accounts from individuals claiming to have done exactly that and 20 people being arrested in KwaZulu-Natal for attempting to do it, but didn’t succeed.
The main culprits blamed for it was the easy removability of the IEC’s ink and ticket scanning machines not being centrally linked.
The EFF’s Dali Mpofu appeared to admit he knew of voters who had voted more than once, while a Cope MP was able to get five voter tickets at different stations.
