Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Several problems reported to the IEC today

Lusanda Bill
18 May 2011


The Independent Electoral Commission says problems have been reported from about five-percent of stations countrywide, with power cuts causing disruption in parts of Gauteng.

Other stations opened late because officials or ballot papers had not arrived.

Voters have come out in droves in hotly-contested Cape Town as well, with the Cape Flats seeing long queues before polling points had opened.

Police are watching Tafelsig where homeless protestors clashed with law enforcers this week.

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