There is an odd situation in two nearby voting stations in Moorton, Chatsworth in Ethekwini.
Moorton Community Hall and Dawnridge Primary both have 0 Ward spoilt ballots, but many PR spoilt. The issue is that there are matching Ballots Cast discrepancies,
meaning that effectively 137 and 61 extra PR ballots respectively were cast in each place, AND that these were all spoiled.
It is difficult to say what transpired here, but this is the type of situation that ought to be investigated.
The only scenario with the #IEC is not at fault would be if 198 members of a community walked into the respective voting stations, took both ballots, cast a spoiled PR ballot, and walked out of the voting station with the Ward ballot in their pocket.
IEC staff OUGHT to see /
if people leave without casting a ballot.
In fact, it ought not to be allowed for people to leave without casting ballots, as this would hypothetically open the door to a new form of coercion, where voters are forced to hand their empty ballots to a third party.
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@IECSouthAfrica quietly published NEW result data over the course of yesterday and today.
EC, FS, Gauteng, Lim, N Cape and NW were published on Nov 8, while KZN, MP and W Cape were published on Nov 9.
To my knowledge, no public announcement has been made.
It would be very helpful if @IECSouthAfrica was to publish a full list of the Voting Station result changes since the announcement of the results on Nov 4, along with details of any seat allocation changes.
I am seeing hundreds of instances where parties have ZEROS written in for one or both of their vote tallies, often with smaller parties.
@IECSouthAfrica, although your reliance on the s 65 rule is misplaced, as errors cannot be rejected in isolation, or before the /
result is known, the sheer scale of this shows that there is a SYSTEMIC problem with the quality and / or honesty of your staff in voting stations, AND with your #Audit processes.
When you tolerate these, you are not merely taking some votes away from smaller parties, you are /
robbing those voters of the right to vote.
Imagine voting, and then seeing ZERO for your party in your voting station.
You are disenfranchising thousands of VOTERS around the country.
Many of these instances ARE "material to the outcome" of those elections.
I have given Christians a hard time over the fact that many have believed covid vaccine conspiracies. Maybe time for some balance.
The media, and much public discourse, IS generally slanted against ordinary Christian belief (objectively, this could be a good, or a bad thing). /
In my view, much results from the mistrust of "mainstream media". In part (I choose my words carefully), some of that mistrust is well founded.
Christians tend to feel alienated (some will say that they should), and anyone who comes along, and "identifies" with that alienation /
will tend to get a good hearing. My opinion is that this happens on an emotional level at first, which is why it can be so hard to shake the ideas gained in this way.
Of course, Trump exploited this tendency ruthlessly. He needed to be shielded from scrutiny of his personal /
My mother passed away last week (cancer, not covid). Vera Lilian Atkins (nee Hough) was born in the village of St Helens near Widnes, outside Liverpool in 1937. She grew up during the war, and post-war austerity. She was honest, courageous and hard-working. She left school at 15
to go out to work. Later she studied nursing, and then worked at a school for the deaf, where she met my father. She was something of a rebel growing up, but resisted against petty authority and arbitrary rules, rather than common decency.
After a time living in Bulawayo, and then settling in Durban, with me as a baby, she worked as an office administrator at a property company, and later at the X-ray Dept of St Augustines during the 1970s. She was always very good at what she did. After we moved to Margate, she