An electoral official carries a voting box in Claremont, Cape Town, May 8 2019. Picture: RODGER BOSCH / AFP
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.
The DA sources said the problem started at about 11am in the city centre but already at 7.15am, shortly after voting stations opened, there was a delay at the voting station at Westerford High School in Rondebosch, because the presiding officer had forgotten to bring a box of ballot papers. The delay lasted about an hour.
Classic ZanuPF tactics
IEC incompetence !
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