POLLING stations around the city will be open today (6 May) and tomorrow as special voting gets underway leading up to the 2019 South African National and Provincial Elections voting day, Wednesday, 8 May.
On Monday morning some voting locales had not yet received their lists of special voters just before 8am, but electoral officers were taking down phone numbers of people who turned up early to vote before going to work for the day.
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This Queensburgh News and Highway Mail reporter was contacted by the electoral officer at the station where they are registered just after 9.30am with the news that the lists and voting material had all been delivered and the station, located in Umbilo, was open for business.
“We are contacting all the voters on the special voting list to let them know that they can all come through today, but the station will be officially open until 5pm.”
Special voting days are also the days that electoral officials will be visiting those who have applied for a home visit special vote due to not being able to attend the polling stations due to a variety of reasons.
From more than 700 000 voters nationally who have been granted permission to cast their votes at their polling stations on the two days before voting day, over 452 000 will be casting their votes from their homes where electoral officers, as well as party agent and observers, will be visiting them.
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Kogie Padayachee, social therapist for the frail care at Flame Lily Park reported just before 10am on Monday, the home had been contacted by their election officers to say they were running late. “We expected them at 9am, but they are running late. They said they will contact us and let us know when they are coming,” she said.
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