IEC Says Vote Counting Completed, HSRC Survey Finds 2021 Municipal Elections Free and Fair

The IEC says it will finalise results of the 2021 Local Government Elections expeditiously while taking care to ensure that all necessary verifications are enforced, IEC General Manager: Electoral Matters Granville Abrahams said on Wednesday night.

“Progress in relation to the finalisation of results now stands at 79 percent of expected results. The number of completed municipalities now stands 139 from a total of 257,” Abrahams said.

Abrahams denied suggestions that the IEC is behind in finalising the results, saying election results must be announced within seven days of the election.

Abrahams said all results are now being transcribed to result slips and all these result slips are at local offices.

“At the local office, they are required to check them for arithmetic accuracy. It is then captured once into the system, the screen goes blank and we capture it the second time. We call this double blind capturing. It