Voting on 3 August - What problems did you experience?

Port Elizabeth:

A very arrogant IEC official with purple shirt on called Busi, was telling voters at ACVV Hall in Forest Hill that they must have their registered slip showing they were registered otherwise they can't vote.
 
Voters names and/or addresses are not on the voters roll.

Many reports received from voters whose addresses are not on the voters roll even after they filled in the correct forms during the voter registration weekends. I am one of those. After voting and placing your ballot papers into the ballot box you are directed to another table to fill in yet another REC1 form.

Also receiving verified reports of voters not on the voters roll of the NEW station where they registered at during the registration weekends. Most are still on the voters roll of their old voting stations.
 
None at all, went through at about 9am, no queues - took about 3 minutes.
 
My station is a joke. I've abandoned for now and will go again later. Reports from areas in JHB north having only one scanner per station.
 
We had a queue issue as mentioned in the other thread, where they pushed the elderly (and other special voters) arriving in droves up the queue blocking everyone else. This when they should had received special accommodation to ensure a consistent voters stream. I would not say that this was a queue issue per say.

Then there was also disorganisation, probably due to things kicking into motion. There were a couple electoral roll issues… not too clued up on this, but I do have ears. Our doors only opened around 07:20-07:30.

I had no issue, had to wait until they cleared up the elderly 'blockade' when people and the elderly’s accompanying nurses or caretakers complained about the mess. I went through, showed my ID and ticket, had my name strike on the roll, received my two ballots, made my marks, put may ballots in their respective boxes and exited the voting station.
 
Flanders said:
My station is a joke. I've abandoned for now and will go again later. Reports from areas in JHB north having only one scanner per station.
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My voting station was separated into voting station A and voting station B by surname. Each voting station had its own scanner. At the doors where they scanned and ticketed they had to move people in queue between A and B to be in accordance with their surname.
 
I live in the tiny town of Swellendam, WC. I walked into town from my home .. a 10 minute stroll.

There were about 20 folk in front of me at the entrance to the Town Hall, which is where the voting took place. From the time I left home, and walked to the Town Hall, up to the time I exited the town hall building to walk back home and arrive at home, less than 35 minutes had passed.

IEC staff were friendly, smiling, and competent.
 
Flanders said:
My station is a joke. I've abandoned for now and will go again later. Reports from areas in JHB north having only one scanner per station.
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One scanner is not an issue if the IEC presiding officer has some savvy. Give it to the IEC queue walker and let that person scan the ID's and print the voters roll info and hand that to the voter. This is what's happening at our station.
 
Dainfern voting station was a breeze. At 7am about 100 people in the queue. Opened on time and queue moved swiftly. Took about 1 hour to cast the vote.

Side question: Isn't it illegal to electioneer on voting day? I was surprised to see ANC and DA tents at the voting station. Wife also received a DA voting SMS this morning at 8:30am. I thought that all campaigning was supposed to cease by midnight on 2nd August and that voting stations should have no party advertising (granted neither ANC nor DA representatives engaged with voters and just sat there watching).
 
Walk there took longer than the actual vote. Was very well organized. We were also split into surname groupings. 10 mins max, in and out.
 
MagicDude4Eva said:
Dainfern voting station was a breeze. At 7am about 100 people in the queue. Opened on time and queue moved swiftly. Took about 1 hour to cast the vote.

Side question: Isn't it illegal to electioneer on voting day? I was surprised to see ANC and DA tents at the voting station. Wife also received a DA voting SMS this morning at 8:30am. I thought that all campaigning was supposed to cease by midnight on 2nd August and that voting stations should have no party advertising (granted neither ANC nor DA representatives engaged with voters and just sat there watching).
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No they are still allowed to but NOT inside the demarcated IEC area.
 
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