MK Party wants eThekwini election results frozen over alleged IEC system failures
The MK Party has formally objected to the IEC regarding the eThekwini election results, alleging systemic failures and discrepancies between electronic data and physical slips. The party is demanding a freeze on results processing until an audit is conducted.
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Highlights potential threats to democratic integrity and the importance of transparent electoral verification processes.
The MK Party has demanded that the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) immediately freeze the capturing of election results in disputed voting districts and wards in eThekwini, alleging systemic failures, discrepancies in results and irregularities in the counting and verification process.
In a formal objection submitted to the commission on Friday, the party accused the IEC of presiding over serious failures at its eThekwini results operations centre (ROC), claiming that a system breakdown during the live results-capturing and data transmission process had disrupted data streams and altered visible audit trails.
The objection, signed by MK Party acting secretary-general Lindiwe Makubu and addressed to IEC commissioner Titi Pitso, raises concerns about what the party describes as severe arithmetic and physical mismatches between results captured on the commission’s electronic leaderboards and certified physical results slips.
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