Constitutional Court saves ANC from election pain after it failed to press submit button

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Constitutional Court saves ANC from election pain after it failed to press submit button

A Constitutional Court ruling has saved the ANC from facing severe damage to its election performance in six municipalities due to a technical blunder.

 

[Goosfrabba]

ANC is still going to perform poorly at the elections. At least this way they won't be able to blame it on not being on the ballot

 

[rustypup]

Of course it did.

"Rules for thee, not for me"

 

[WanderingMind]

Remember, just add your tax stuff, don't submit it.
It's officially now still counts as submitted.

Anything just loaded and not submitted now counts as submitted.

 

[Hemi300c]

Constitutional Court saves ANC from their continious incompetence.​

FTFY

 

[notayoba]

This is a shocking (but not unexpected) decision

So what is the deadline for the next election? Can parties submit minutes before the election and complain that the ballots aren't ready? Or is this a 1 time thing, special, just for the ANC?

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

ANC can do whatever it likes and nobody can say a word else they are accused of being Racists.

 

[SlowInternet]

The Con court also bending the knee before the ANC

 

[Sargeant]

"The court said it would give reasons for the ruling at a later stage."

We've made if happen, now we have to think up a reason for it. Yes, there's nothing funny here.....

 

[ISP cash cow]

The ANC had also argued that the law did not require it to click the “submit as final” button, only to submit its nominations to the IEC.

 

[hj007]

embarrassing

 

[Jam Sandwich]

Funny how they never have an issue pressing a button if its to tranfer/steal funds...

 

[MrGray]

So basically there's now a legal precedent that anything you load online but don't press the final button to submit can be deemed to be submitted anyway. Fantastic, I'm sure this will work out fine.

 

[Swa]

It doesn't really matter if you like the ANC or the current system, but its integrity has to be protected. So this is one instance where I actually support the ANC. Whether there were internal struggles or incompetence is irrelevant to the fact they managed to meet the deadline in what the law requires. The EC should have just accepted the submissions as now they have more work and a tighter deadline to meet.

 

[Swa]

So basically there's now a legal precedent that anything you load online but don't press the final button to submit can be deemed to be submitted anyway. Fantastic, I'm sure this will work out fine.

The law already works that way. Load illegal content on a server and see what happens. It doesn't matter that you didn't click the final submit button.

 

[Kornhub]

You know I am not going to waste my time being angry by this anymore.

 

[neoprema]

If I were SARS i'de watch that Judge closely... he's about to get a nice big handout lol.

 

[oros]

As it says in the article.... He started feeling I'll addressing the media....I know why.....

 

[Fuzzbox]

ANC does not abide by the rules

 

[Creag]

This is the ruling I expected, not desired.

But as said above, said party cannot use this as excuse for the incoming dismal performance.

Edit: this ruling also alleviates the IEC from being seen to be "siding" with crud.