SA voter turnout at an all-time low

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Ten million eligible voters didn’t bother to register, and a further 9.1 million registered voters stayed away from the voting booth.

It’s not unique to South Africa, but this phenomenon is going to make tracking trends an increasingly difficult task going forward.Before the elections, eNCA looked at the so-called “poll of polls” showing data from Ipsos, MarkData and the Institute of Race Relations.

Ipsos data among registered voters, factoring in a margin of error of 2 percentage points, either way, showed the ANC just cresting the 60% mark with the DA at 19%.

 

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It comes to how many people deceased in a five year period so many people who had loyalty in voting in that period were deceased probably

Abramjee People have lost hope

During their campaigns they only gave us t-shirts. Did they expect us to go vote only wearing a t-shirt? Next elections we need pants tooo CyrilRamaphosa MbalulaFikile

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