Know the counting process
South Africans wait for the results of the 2014 Election.
How will the counting of votes be done?
• Counting will happen at each voting station.
• Officials employed by the IEC to assist during voting will also assist with counting, working in shifts allocated by the presiding officer.
• Votes can be counted at a central place if this will help ensure free and fair elections, or the votes can come from a mobile voting station.
• There will be observers, party/independent candidate agents and party representatives invited by the IEC to these venues to monitor if everything is done fairly and correctly.
• For the 2009 elections, there were improved controls over the record paper with the final results for a voting station.
• This had to be signed by the presiding officer and all political parties, and then scanned to create an immediate record.
