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

[ghaye]

ANC does not abide by the rules

Old habits die hard. They've had 30+ years of making the rules.

 

[Creag]

Old habits die hard. They've had 30+ years of making the rules.

And undoing their rules will likely take much longer

 

[Gudnews]

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.

Some regulations or laws need to be amended indeed.

 

[Segg]

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.

Honestly I wonder what precedent this sets for such situations

 

[Swa]

Honestly I wonder what precedent this sets for such situations

As said the laws need to be amended. I assume in the case of SARS the law allows SARS to require a final acknowledgement, but in the case of the IEC it doesn't.

I'm one of the first to usually criticise the ANC but in this case they do appear to be correct and if we insist they follow the law then so should other institutions. And as said this is probably good in that they won't be able to claim it was because of this when they do worse this time.

 

[Bad Ballie]

In reality all this really does is confirm morons are running the country, I wouldn't trust these idiots with anything, but apparently, we allow them to dictate our children's futures. Not sure who is really the moron anymore.

 

[Jam Sandwich]

In reality all this really does is confirm morons are running the country, I wouldn't trust these idiots with anything, but apparently, we allow them to dictate our children's futures. Not sure who is really the moron anymore.

Yep... That brainpower is certainly something...

 

[rustypup]

its integrity has to be protected

BS

The cANCer and Con-court have always shared a special understanding that let's the criminally incompetent, ignorant and corrupt criminal enterprise off the hook for pretty much everything.

The cANCer has zero farking integrity. What's to protect?

 

[spiff]

wonder how much it cost the anc for that vote

 

[notayoba]

Now what happens next time? If a party has a draft list saved, do those people automatically end up on the ballot even though they weren't submitted, or must you still submit it as your final list?

If I'm busy filling in my tax return, and I'm not done, can SARS sue me before I submitted it because they saw the draft and I left a placeholder amount in there somewhere? This has potential to open a whole case of worm cans.

 

[Swa]

BS

The cANCer and Con-court have always shared a special understanding that let's the criminally incompetent, ignorant and corrupt criminal enterprise off the hook for pretty much everything.

The cANCer has zero farking integrity. What's to protect?

I'm not talking about the ANC but the IEC. So far it's the only trusted institution in the country even if you don't agree with the system in place. If the world starts questioning its integrity everything starts falling apart like in Zim. But I suspect this has more to do with the fact they didn't want to appear partial so they let the legal system make the decision even though it now costs more.

 

[Swa]

Now what happens next time? If a party has a draft list saved, do those people automatically end up on the ballot even though they weren't submitted, or must you still submit it as your final list?

If I'm busy filling in my tax return, and I'm not done, can SARS sue me before I submitted it because they saw the draft and I left a placeholder amount in there somewhere? This has potential to open a whole case of worm cans.

There's a lot more to this. First there is the legislation which actually doesn't support the electronic system the IEC has in place. That has to change. Then there were several technical issues which affected several parties. It was confirmed by others that it wasn't always clear whether you submitted or not and if you went back you would see your button press did nothing. The ANC is on the record as having phoned the IEC about the problems before the deadline.

This isn't a ruling that can be applied in general.

 

[longboy]

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.

I made a nice web page, loaded links to torrents and screencaps and filehosts and hosted them on Afrihost since last year. Fokol warnings.