Incidents Relating to Bungling of Ballot Papers Not Sinister, Says South African IEC Chair
Thursday 8 May 2014 14:26
SABC
The Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) Advocate Pansy Tlakula believes that the two incidents relating to the bungling of ballot papers in Gauteng may not be sinister.
Police have found 16 special votes alongside a road in Springs. In another incident, ballot boxes containing votes which had already been captured were stored at a school which was broken into overnight.
Tlakula says they don't suspect sabotage. She says that she doesn’t want to speculate that people are doing these things deliberately to discredit the process.
“It is safe to say that the police investigation will reveal what lies behind these incidents,” says Tlakula.
She says that the two incidents are of great concern to the commission and that IEC would prefer to have an incident and irregularity free incident election.
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| South African Independent Electoral Commission Chairperson Pansy Tlakula. |
SABC
The Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) Advocate Pansy Tlakula believes that the two incidents relating to the bungling of ballot papers in Gauteng may not be sinister.
Police have found 16 special votes alongside a road in Springs. In another incident, ballot boxes containing votes which had already been captured were stored at a school which was broken into overnight.
Tlakula says they don't suspect sabotage. She says that she doesn’t want to speculate that people are doing these things deliberately to discredit the process.
“It is safe to say that the police investigation will reveal what lies behind these incidents,” says Tlakula.
She says that the two incidents are of great concern to the commission and that IEC would prefer to have an incident and irregularity free incident election.
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