The Electoral Commission is pulling all the stops to ensure the finalisation of the capturing and auditing of results for the 2024 National and Provincial Elections, and remains on course to complete the process timeously.
Briefing media at the National Results Operations Centre (ROC) in Midrand on Friday, the Commission’s Chief Electoral Officer, Sy Mamabolo, reiterated that counting at all voting stations has been completed, and that the Commission has all the results at its local offices.
“The process underway is to capture results on our system for tallying and seat allocation. So far, a total of 71.76 [percentage of] results have been captured,” Mamabolo explained.
The CEO reminded South Africans that the ballots are counted at the voting stations where they are cast.
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“At all times, this is done in the presence of political party agents, independent candidate agents and observers, who monitor the entire counting and results process.
“The Commission regrets the incident this morning when the leader boards at the results operation centres and our website could not display the results. We wish to emphasise that our system did not crash and no data was compromised.
“The Commission went into the elections with a full IT plan, which includes back-up and recovery, in case it is needed. This situation has not arisen,” Mamabolo said.
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Mamabolo said the incident involved the activation of a "necessary control" not to display to leader boards, which is a feature of the result system.
“Result capturing and other result collation activities proceeded without interruption,” he said.
Meanwhile, progress relating to the capturing of the results, per province, is as follows (as at the time of the media briefing at 4pm):
- Eastern Cape is at 92.13%, with 4485 of 4 868 voting districts completed.
- Free State is at 95.52%, with 1 515 of 1 586 voting districts completed.
- Gauteng is at 75.33%, with 2 107 of 2 797 voting districts completed.
- KwaZulu-Natal is at 75.37%, with 3 749 of 4 974 voting districts completed.
- Mpumalanga is at 91.94%, with 1 665 of 1 811 voting districts completed.
- Northern Cape is at 100%, with 730 of 730 voting districtss completed.
- Limpopo is at 80.78%, with 2 598 of 3 216 voting districts completed.
- North West is at 88.61%, with 1 540 of 1 738 voting districts completed.
- Western Cape is at 88.99%, with 1 399 of 1 572 voting districts completed.
- SAnews.gov.za
