Electoral Court rules that MK party's 2024 election case is 'flawed'

Former South African President and MK party leader Jacob Zuma. Picture: Gallo Images/Daily Maverick/Felix Dlangamandla

The Electoral Court on Friday dismissed an application by the MK party to set aside the results of the 2024 national and provincial elections.

Former president Jacob Zuma’s party alleged that the integrity of the election results was compromised when the Electoral Commission of South Africa’s (IEC) results dashboard went blank for two hours on 31 May 2024.

The MK party alleged that the IEC interfered with the vote-capturing process. It also claimed that the IEC’s digital vote-capturing system was unreliable, which could raise doubts about the election results.

The IEC, however, insisted that its system did not crash and that results continued to be counted while the dashboard display was affected.

The Electoral Court ruled that the MK party’s insistence that something untoward happened with the results leaderboard was “flawed”.