IEC expects spike in results

The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) in Gauteng says it expects a spike in the number of results coming in later on Thursday.

Currently there’s steady progress in the counting of votes and results are slowly trickling in. In the last hour, about five percent of voting districts had completed counting votes.

The ANC was in the lead with 50% of the votes followed by the DA with 26% and in third position was the EFF with 13% of the votes.

These are initial statistics and no predictions can be made at this stage.

Deputy Manager for Electoral Matters at IEC,  Ledimo Nthejane, says their teams are working hard.

“The picture has changed substantially from the point when the voting stations closed. During the cause of today, there will be a spike as presiding officers will be finalising their counting. There will be significant progress on the results that will be processed as the day progresses towards the afternoon and evening,” says Nthejane.

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IEC is really a joke. Check this out#SAElections19 #VOTE19 pic.twitter.com/Ka3Yx4jPI8

— Ṱhalukanyo Mulaudzi (@thalu_mulaudzi) May 8, 2019

Okay Africans let’s be honest why are we still using papers to vote I mean it’s 2019 why not make them electronic use your finger print to log in and vote and electronically gets counted, eliminate human error #SAElections19

— Rotoe (Big dawg) (@TshabuseDusty) May 8, 2019

The lesson here is clear, Twitter politicians tweet for likes but it doesn’t translate into actual numbers. If you really are an avid supporter of a party and their policies you should’ve gone to vote. Twitter outrage will not bring change. #SAElections19

— Levern Oosthuizen (@Livvy_oost) May 9, 2019

After 20 years we still vote on paper. How about placing electronic stations instead of ballot boxes where your vote is captured electronically instead, rather than on a piece of paper #SAElections19

— Badger (@honeybdger_) May 8, 2019

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