Randburg IEC officials promote Covid-19 safety precautions during voting process

IEC officials at one of ward 115’s voting stations, Magic Beings Nursery School, are urging the public to adhere to Covid-19 protocols as they come in to vote.

This is the first time South Africans, like many others across the world, have had to vote during a pandemic, but the IEC has put in place the necessary guidelines to ensure every voter and staff member is safe.

The following should be adhered to at every voting station today:

1) Voters and IEC staff should wear a face mask at all times. If you don’t have a mask or face cover, the election officials will refuse you entry to the voting station and you will not be able to vote.

2) Try and maintain a distance of 1.5 m from fellow voters, election officials, party agents and observers at all times while at your voting station.

3) Wait your turn before entering the voting station as only a limited number of people may be gathered inside the venue at the same time.

4) Liquid sanitiser will be sprayed on your hands by an election official before you enter and leave the voting station.

5) Bring your own pen for filling in forms and marking ballots at the voting station. In any event, election officials will be sanitising all pens at the voting station after each use.

6) When inking your thumbnail, election officials will check that it is dry before applying the ink, and will ask you to wait a moment before you move on to ensure that the ink has dried before your hands are sanitised on departing the voting station.

7) All voting station surfaces will be wiped with 70 per cent alcohol disinfectant before and after use.

8) Say if it’s not okay. Politely speak up if people are too close to you, or if anyone’s behaviour makes you feel uncomfortable. Keep yourself and others safe.