Voting on 3 August - What problems did you experience?

MagicDude4Eva said:
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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At each voting station the IEC Presiding Officer will indicate the boundary of the voting station. Within that boundary there may be no party officials wearing their party clothes or any form of party advertising.

Outside the voting station boundary the parties are allowed to set up their stalls but they are not allowed to approach you to canvass their parties. They are there to assist you with any problems.
 
Only real issue was there only being one scanner. Not sure how much of a difference it would've made.

Regardless, busiest I've ever seen a voting station. Lots of people which is good :)
 
One scanner at our station too. Queue about 80 minutes.
 
No problems at all. Not even a queue. 3 min in and out. Just missed the boerewors and drinks as per previous years.
 
Here in Plumstead at the scout hall... zero issues. All friendly and efficient .... in and out in less than 20mins with zero issues.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
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.
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by my local station there is a short queue for the special cases. they merge with the long queue as voters enter gates to voting area.
 
Got there at just after 11:00, was out by 11:12 and that was with the queue out the door at the Newton Park Public Library.

Fast, friendly, efficient. The longest wait was for one of the voting booths to open up:D
 
Fulcrum29 said:
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.
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Same at my voting station. When I was in front of the queue suddenly there was a lot of elderly and other people that was taken to the front of the queue. I had to wait another 30 minutes before I could go inside to vote.

Then there was a situation where one or 2 elderly people nearly collapsed from standing. No chairs available for them but like 5 meters away from them there was 2 policemen and also one of the party representatives sitting on their asses in the sun. They saw what happened but no effort made to offer their chairs. Disguisting.
 
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, it isn't. Just no rallies or big events. Now you know.
 
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