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IEC hopes to reach 90% of vote counting by Tuesday night

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The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) says 55% of the national vote has been counted by 21H00 on Tuesday night.

Updating members of the media on the progress pertaining to the results capturing process at its Operations Centre in Tshwane, IEC expects 90% of the national vote to be finalised by tonight and the remaining 10% to be done by Wednesday.

IEC CEO Sy Mamabolo says “The Northern Cape has completed 89% of its results, followed by Western Cape at 72% and in the third position comes Eastern Cape at 70%. The rest of the provinces’ completion rates range between 37 and 67%. At the level of capturing 78% of the results are already in the system waiting for scanning and auditing. We are still pursuing the target of reaching 90% still in the course of tonight.”

Electoral Commission of South Africa Media Briefing: 

Load shedding 

The IEC says it has been in contact with Eskom officials over the impact of load shedding on vote counting. Eskom earlier announced that stage two load shedding will be implemented until 05 AM on Wednesday.

IEC Commissioner Mosotho Moepya says, “Load shedding is always a concern to the extent that it has an impact on our ability to do things fast so we have been in discussions with the officials of Eskom and we sought to achieve an insulation of certain sites where our operations are continuing.”

Objections with IEC

Political parties have until 5 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon to lodge their objections with the IEC.

Counting is continuing across the municipality and all eyes are on the hotly contested eThekwini Municipality. Provincial electoral officer Ntombifuthi Masinga says the IEC is hoping to release preliminary results on Thursday and final results next week on November 8th.

“We are Section 65 in our Municipality Electoral Act which empowers political parties or ordinary members of the community to lodge an objection with useful they think there’s anything g that happened during g the voting process in any voting station that may have prejudice the credibility of the elections in that voting station. Both political parties and members of the public can lodge those objections. they are lodged directly with the electoral commission, and the commission will deliberate on these and make a ruling as quickly as possible.”

 

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