Magashule’s ACT wants IEC to give it ‘an hour or two’ to submit candidates list rather than postponing elections

Magashule’s ACT wants IEC to give it ‘an hour or two’ to submit candidates list rather than postponing electionsAfrican Congress for Transformation leader, Ace Magashule. Picture: Michel Bega/The CitizenThe parties are challenging the Electoral Court’s 15 April ruling that refused to extend the deadline for them to submit their parliamentary candidate lists ahead of the upcoming national and provincial elections.

Amm cited a 1999 ConCourt judgment which states that “the vote of each and every citizen is a badge of dignity and of personhood”.He seemingly suggested that that the commission claiming that ACT “failed” to comply with the Electoral Act was misleading. “It required users to log out and log in again. In doing so, the information that had been captured was lost.”The advocate said the IEC had the powers in terms of Section 20 of the Electoral Act to amend the election timetable and extend the deadline for the submission of their lists.

He revealed that ACT only wanted “an hour or two” for the IEC to reopen its online portal to submit outstanding documents to the IEC and only resort to postponing the elections as the last measure.“The non-postponement of the elections and non-granting of some relief to my client’s right does not render what is already an unfair election free and fair, with respect,” he added.

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