IEC commissioner Mosotho Moepya said the commission cannot be held accountable for people who did not vote. According to him, the IEC was responsible only for voters who turned up at voting stations and completed the voting process.
“We now accept that where someone has evidence on the numbers presented, there are processes that are followed to deal with such things,” said Moepya. “We are not going to account for people who have not come but we will account for those who have come so that there is no doubt that we are trying to process voters who are registered elsewhere or not on the voters' roll.”
The IEC also reported that it had completed counting 65% of the votes by 7.30pm on Tuesday.
Northern province was leading at 89% of its results completed, followed by Western Cape at 72%. The Eastern Cape was third at 70%.
The counting in the rest of the provinces was hovering between 37% and 67%, said Mamabolo, who added that the IEC was confident it would reach its intended 90% of votes counted by midnight on Tuesday.
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