IEC's voting registration turns chaotic
South Africans who want to vote in the country's upcoming local elections have struggled to access the IEC's elections registration website or get registered at voting stations since Saturday morning.
Early in the morning, attempting to open...
ConCourt dismisses bid to postpone local elections
The Constitutional Court has dismissed a bid by the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) to postpone the country's local elections.
The IEC approached the court in August after receiving a report by former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang...
IEC announces voter registration weekend dates
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has announced that the national voter registration weekend ahead of the upcoming local government elections will be held on 17 and 18 July 2021.
During that weekend, all 23,146 voting stations around...
DA MP James Selfe will table a private members' bill in Parliament on Monday proposing changes to South Africa's electoral system.
Through the draft Electoral Reform Bill, the Democratic Alliance sought to "re-introduce a constituency system for the National Assembly".
Currently, the 400...
The IEC website is so badly designed it is embarrassing! :eek:To make things worse the developers for the website had a budget of about R3m and the site is fixes at 800x600, when the minimum standard is 1024x1280. It looks like it was done, by person that just started learning asp and html...
Okay, so who is going to do the whole voting registeration thing this weekend (8th & 9th) ?
I'm going with my girlfriend to register - because of where I live, I'll be doing it at St Cyprians school.
To be honest, I've never really been bothered but it is a experience I have to admit that...
Hi guys,
Have you noticed how the IEC's website (http://www.elections.org.za/) doesn't allow users of non-microsoft products in?
I think that for an organisation that is supposed to be absolutely neutral it is very unfair to only allow a certain subset of users in, especially considering that...