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Michael Atkins

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9 Nov

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#LGE2021 #ResultCheck

@IECSouthAfrica quietly published NEW result data TODAY, four days after the official results were announced publicly.

Different vote totals, and a different seat allocation for @Our_DA are indicated in the new data.

@IECSouthAfrica

To clarify, I show the seat calculation for #Ethekwini, which has altered.

There has been NO ANNOUNCEMENT on the @IECSouthAfrica Twitter account.

It will be an interesting exercise to determine what changes have been made, and under what circumstances.

We need TRANSPARENCY.

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#LGE2021 #NewResults

@IECSouthAfrica unfortunately, your newly-published results do NOT include Aplos Primary School, VD 76160235 in Ward 16 of MP 325 Bushbuckridge.

Could you explain what is happening with this data, as earlier data sets DID contain a result for this VD?

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Michael Atkins

@atkinsmike1

9 Nov

#LGE2021 #ResultCheck

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,

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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.

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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 /

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Michael Atkins

@atkinsmike1

9 Nov

@IECSouthAfrica

#LGE2021

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 /

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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.

@IECSouthAfrica

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Michael Atkins

@atkinsmike1

13 May

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 /

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Michael Atkins

@atkinsmike1

29 Jan

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Michael Atkins

@atkinsmike1

22 Jun 20

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

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