- presiding officers at polling stations in terms of s. 85 of the Act. In addition to these complaints, they also rely on other claimed irregularities: the existence of ballot paper books with a different print and numbers to the official ones; the late completion of Elect 16 returns and, in certain instances, the failure to sign or return them altogether; allowing supporters of the second respondent to vote on behalf of other persons; asking certain voters to publicly demonstrate their political affiliation at the polling stations before they were allowed to vote; mobile stations forwarding sealed ballot boxes to verification centres instead of to the polling stations to which they had been assigned; allowing certain voters to vote twice; allowing political campaigning inside polling stations; allowing persons to vote without their identities having been verified; denying party agents permission to enter certain polling stations; adding votes cast for the first appellant to those cast for the second respondent and counting them in favour of the second respondent; allowing persons who were not registered on the voters roll to vote and using ink which could be washed off easily, thereby creating the potential that persons could vote more than once. These alleged malpractices, the appellants contend, allowed for the potential circumvention of the checks and balances put in place by the Act in the interest of accountability; undermined transparency in the electoral process; diminished the value of the verification process; opened the door
- presiding officers at polling stations in terms of s. 85 of the Act. In addition to these complaints, they also rely on other claimed irregularities: the existence of ballot paper books with a different print and numbers to the official ones; the late completion of Elect 16 returns and, in certain instances, the failure to sign or return them altogether; allowing supporters of the second respondent to vote on behalf of other persons; asking certain voters to publicly demonstrate their political affiliation at the polling stations before they were allowed to vote; mobile stations forwarding sealed ballot boxes to verification centres instead of to the polling stations to which they had been assigned; allowing certain voters to vote twice; allowing political campaigning inside polling stations; allowing persons to vote without their identities having been verified; denying party agents permission to enter certain polling stations; adding votes cast for the first appellant to those cast for the second respondent and counting them in favour of the second respondent; allowing persons who were not registered on the voters roll to vote and using ink which could be washed off easily, thereby creating the potential that persons could vote more than once. These alleged malpractices, the appellants contend, allowed for the potential circumvention of the checks and balances put in place by the Act in the interest of accountability; undermined transparency in the electoral process; diminished the value of the verification process; opened the door
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