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.
READ: DA demands full audit by IEC on #SAElections2019 results
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
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