Small glitches on first special voting day

By Simon Nare

The Independent Electoral Commission has admitted there were a few glitches that blighted the first day of the special voting across the country but dismissed them as insignificant given the scale of the number of approved voting.

This was the response from IEC officials at the first press briefing at the national results operations centre at the Ghalagher Estate in Midrand. Official faced tough questions from the media about voting stations that opened late and others relating to voters who could not find their names on the register.

In particular, it was put to the IEC that at an old age home in Soweto, resident were denied their democratic right to vote as voting did not take place.

Deputy chief electoral officer Masego Shiburi acknowledged the incident and said in the case of the voting stations opening late, that was due to the late arrival of voting