The Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) says that it needs R300m to clean up the voters roll in compliance with a landmark Constitutional Court judgment in preparation for the 2019 general election. The IEC has started approaching municipalities in a bid to verify the physical addresses of all registered voters in the country. A free, fair and credible 2019 election is crucial in light of the ANC’s continued electoral slide and the expectation that the next general election is bound to yield a coalition government. The IEC was given a dressing down by the Constitutional Court for its failure to ensure that there was a clean voters roll in the 2013 Tlokwe by-elections, the results of which were successfully challenged by independent candidates. In addition to the voters roll issue, the IEC remains without a chief electoral officer after Mosotho Moepya’s contract lapsed earlier in 2017. The Constitutional Court gave the IEC until June 2018 to ensure that the national voters roll was up t...
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