MISLEADING STATEMENTS ON THE INTEGRITY 2024 NATIONAL AND PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS
BY : CHANON LECODEY MERRICKS ONLINE EDITOR KASiBC_AFRiCA
Electoral Commission concerned about misleading statements on the integrity of NPE 2024 results
The Electoral Commission notes with concern sustained, yet inaccurate, statements regarding the management and integrity of the results of the 2024 National and Provincial Elections. The Electoral Commission is particularly concerned by the persistent false statements by political party leaders, which have the potential to undermine public confidence in the integrity of the impending elections of municipal councils.
The latest of these statements appears in the podcast featuring the President of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in which he alleges that the Electoral Commission swapped votes at his voting station (Mponegele Primary School) in Polokwane, Limpopo. Allegedly, his party votes were attributed to the African National Congress (ANC).
This is not correct. Results slips in the hands of the Commission indicate that the Mponegele Primary School vote count is the same as those captured on the Commission’s Results System. The Commission wishes to indicate that South Africa’s result collation process is robust and predicated on transparency, extensive safeguards, and checks and balances which are designed to protect the integrity of the election results.
The Commission is acutely aware that result slips which are completed at voting stations represent the ultimate record of the political will of the voters within voting districts. Hence, the inherent checks and balances institutionalised in the result collation process.
Some of the safeguards inherent in the results collation process include the following elements:
• Counting of the votes at the voting station in front of party agents and observers
• Compiling a result slip at the voting station and having that countersigned by party agents
• Capturing the results into the system built for that purpose using a double-blind capture process
• Procuring services of the independent audit industry to audit the correctness of the captured results against result slips
• Independent auditing of the functional modalities of the result system
• Affording political parties the opportunity to audit the result system
• Making voting station results available to political parties and the media through dedicated facilities at Results Operating Centres
• Permitting parties to photograph and broadcast the results slips as soon as they are completed.
As part of the normal consultation with electoral stakeholders, senior officials of the Electoral Commission already have a scheduled meeting with the EFF leadership on 21 May 2026.
The meeting requested by the party will be used to brief the party on election readiness matters and deal with any issues that the party may wish to raise relating to the electoral process.
The Electoral Commission remains open to constructive engagement with all political parties through Political Liaison Committees (PLCs) on matters concerning the integrity, credibility and strengthening of South Africa’s electoral democracy.
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