IEC embarks on online address capture initiative
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has launched the first phase of an online address capture facility, which will allow registered voters to provide their addresses via the IEC's website.
The IEC is in a race against time to capture all voter addresses following a Constitutional Court ruling in June 2016.
The Constitutional Court gave the Electoral Commission until June 2018 to rectify deficiencies on the national common voters' roll with regards to missing addresses.
The IEC says the facility will allow already-registered voters to provide and update their address details and is not an online registration facility.
In this initial phase, the online facility will also only be available to the approximately 3 million registered voters whose addresses do not feature on the voters' roll.
The affected voters are being contacted and requested to submit their addresses online via a targeted SMS campaign.
According to the IEC, it will open the system to all registered voters to check and update their address details at a later stage.
JacarandaFM News' Maryke Vermaak spoke to IEC acting CEO Sy Mamabolo about the initiative.