Charles Molele
The Independent Electoral Commission says it will urgently conduct an audit of results in a sample of voting stations to ascertain if double voting occurred during the polls on Wednesday.
This follows several complaints political parties that there was double voting in various polling stations across the country.
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The electoral commission’s chief electoral officer Sy Mamabolo said the full audit was endorsed by political parties in the party liaison committee on Thursday.
“The audit will cover a statistically representative sample of voting stations as well as all voting stations where complaints or allegations of double voting have been received. The final number and selection of the sample will be determined in conjunction with expert statisticians,” said Mamabolo.
“The audit will involve the capture of information showing the ID numbers of voters who cast votes at each voting station from the “zip-zip” scanners and completed VEC 4 forms. This data will then be cross-referenced and compared to identify any instances of multiple voting to help establish scientifically whether such instances were isolated or systemic and what the material impact is, if any, to the results.”
Mamabolo said the commission has also ordered an investigation into the effectiveness of the indelible ink marker pens supplied for the elections.
Meanwhile, IEC’s commissioner Janet Love said there was no evidence of Russian meddling in the South African elections.
