IEC orders vote recount in Musina

IEC orders vote recount in Musina

Polokwane – The IEC has ordered a vote recount on Friday at a Musina polling station in Limpopo after results showed that the EFF and the DA each failed to get a single vote on the national ballot.

Oddly, the same results indicated that 151 and 83 provincial ballots from that polling station went to the two parties respectively.

This suggested that while 234 people at the polling station voted for the EFF and the DA on the provincial ballot, they all chose not to vote for either of the parties on the national ballot.

The stark difference was first noted by the DA which alleged that its party agent’s signature on both the national and provincial results slips had been forged. “When I sent him (DA party agent) the pictures of the two signatures he said ‘they look like my signature, but they are not mine’,” said DA provincial leader Jacque Smalle….

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South Africa Today – South Africa News – Polokwane