IEC confident registration credible despite Durban ID fraud allegations
The IEC says it's confident the past weekend's by-election voter registration drive was a credible one.
This despite a man being found with a batch of IDs at a voting station at Durban's Mount Royal.
It's understood the was a commotion as party agents cried foul.
They accused him of trying to commit fraud by flooding the system with voters, possibly from outside the area.
But Ntombifuthi Masinga of the IEC in KZN says the man was removed from the premises before he could register.
She explains the circumstances in which people may enter a voting station with more than one identity document.
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"It is allowed that you can come to our voting stations and check on behalf of other voters, particularly in this time when we are worried about the health and safety protocols at the stations.
In the same manner, you can go to our system or send your ID number to our call centre to verify your registration status.
"There will be nothing wrong with that. you would have been wrong if this person had been in turn registering on behalf of these voters."
