Shortage of ballot papers in Cape Town city centre panics DA
There was a delay of about three hours at nine voting stations because the person delivering the ballot papers had had an accident
The lack of ballot papers at several voting stations in the DA stronghold in the centre of Cape Town and in the northern suburbs of the city meant that voting came to a standstill and voters decided to go back home. The DA now has to blitz voters with messages urging them to return to voting stations. “It is affecting turnout,” a DA source said. There was a delay of about three hours at nine voting stations in ward 77 including Tamboerskloof, Oranjezicht, Gardens, Vredehoek and the City Bowl because the person who was delivering the ballot papers had an accident, a DA source said. The Parow civic centre in the northern suburbs was also affected by a shortage of ballot papers.
More troubling was that only 800 ballot papers were eventually delivered for each polling station in ward 77 and only 200 in Parow, which was insufficient to cater for the number of voters. The DA has lodged a complaint with the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) about the shortage. The DA sources said the...
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