Registered voters who will be unable to cast their votes in their respective voting districts on May 18 have until 5pm today, 3 May 2011, to submit their applications for special votes. These voters include those who are housebound due to illness/infirmity, are hospitalised or deployed far from home for work reasons. Voters who want to apply for special votes can download and complete the MEC 35 form on the IEC website www.iec.org.za. However, voters cannot email or fax their … [Read more...] about Today, 3 May, is Last Day for Special Vote Applications
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Do You Qualify to Cast a Special Vote?
A special vote allows a registered voter, who can't vote at their voting station on election day, to apply to vote on a predetermined day before election day in May 2011. To apply for a special vote, you must: be registered in South Africa as a voter have a green, bar-coded ID book or a valid temporary identity certificate and be on the Voters' Roll. By law, you can apply for a special vote if you: can't travel to your voting station because you are physically infirm or … [Read more...] about Do You Qualify to Cast a Special Vote?
IEC Focus on Visually Impaired and Special Votes
For the first time in the history of local government elections, visually impaired voters will have a new way of casting their votes in the 2011 municipal elections. "This time, we are going to use huge touch screens, Braille machines for the visually impaired and for those voters with low vision..." the chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), Dr Brigalia Bam, told BuaNews. The new Braille machines will have earphones which can be used to listen to recorded content on … [Read more...] about IEC Focus on Visually Impaired and Special Votes
