Convicted Durban electoral officer abused her position - IEC
The Independent Electoral Commission says a Durban teacher convicted of voter fraud is guilty of abusing her position as electoral officer.
Nomusa Gabuza was this week handed a suspended sentence after she admitted stuffing a ballot box with 24 votes at her school during last year's municipal elections.
The National Prosecution Authority says she cast the extra ballots before polls could open to voters at the school where she worked.
The IEC says its system picked up on Gabuza's offence and she was arrested in November.
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The Umlazi Regional Court sentenced her to three years of correctional supervision and four years imprisonment, wholly suspended for three years.
The IEC has welcomed the outcome and has lauded all involved in bringing her to book.
It says the conviction is proof its systems have strengthened and with the introduction of the Voter Management Device the act of double voting is impossible.
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