Not our fault, says the IEC in response to ActionSA
The new political party wrote to Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and gave them until 10am on Monday to address the omission of ActionSA’s name on the ballot papers for the local government elections.
In a statement, the IEC said the reason ActionSA’s name is not on the ballots is due to the party not having an abbreviated name.
“The absence of the abbreviated name of ActionSA on the ward ballots is because, at the point of registering as a party, ActionSA elected not to register an abbreviated name or acronym. They responded with a ‘Not Applicable’ in the space where the political party was required to indicate its abbreviated name.”
The IEC further revealed that there are 14 other political parties that appear on the ballots without abbreviated names.
“The insinuation that the commission is acting without due impartiality is without foundation and mischievous.
“The onus to choose party identifiers rests with the political party and not the Commission and the scheme in the ballot design has been part of our electoral management practice since the inception of democratic local government in 2000.”
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