The Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) has asked the Treasury for about R140m to conclude the massive project of recording the addresses of citizens on the voters roll, as ordered by the Constitutional Court in 2016. With a general election looming, it is key that the voters roll is updated to meet constitutional requirements. This is so as to avoid challenges to the validity of the vote. The 2019 national election is being billed as the most hotly contested since 1994. The IEC has rolled out the first phase of the project, which involves obtaining the addresses of about 3-million voters for whom it does not already have addresses. While the Constitutional Court deadline for the commission to fix the voters roll is June 2018, the project is a mammoth one requiring new technology to iron out. There is also the tricky task of linking each voter to their voting district. "It is a huge project for SA and the end product is likely to improve transparency and the overall fairness of the ele...
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