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Twenty suspects have been arrested after allegedly trying to vote for a second time during the 2019 National and Provincial Elections.
Nineteen suspects have been arrested in KwaZulu-Natal – of which 16 are alleged to have transgressed in Danhauser, two in Hluhluwe and one in the Port Shepstone – while the twentieth suspect was arrested in Douglasdale in Gauteng.
All suspects will be appearing in various courts in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng province.
These suspects are alleged to have contravened Section 88 (d) of the Electoral Act 73/1998 whereby a person tries to cast more votes than a person is entitled to.