{"id":94279,"date":"2017-12-19T17:43:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T15:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=94279"},"modified":"2020-08-06T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T15:21:52","slug":"anc-missing-votes-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/anc-missing-votes-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC Missing Votes Saga: Delegates Call For A Total Vote Recount"},"content":{"rendered":"
While celebrations were still going on over the birth of new ANC top officials with “the new Mandela” in the person of Cyril Ramaphosa as the President, a part of the country stayed at war over the 68 delegates’ missing votes.<\/p>\n
As a result, the election of the new ANC top six leadership structure stood the risk of being challenged as a larger number of the delegates called for a total recount of the votes counted<\/p>\n
This, according to them, would provide good answers to the whereabouts of the missing 68 unaccounted votes and irregularities in the tallying of votes.<\/p>\n
The total number of approved voting delegates that attended the elective conference at Nasrec in Johannesburg was 4,776 but the EleXion Agency that actually conducted the voting process confirmed that only 4,708 delegates voted \u2013 a difference of 68 votes.<\/p>\n
The supposed \u201cmissing\u201d votes in the ANC\u2019s leadership elections started after the affected delegates who were valid representatives of their branches couldn’t see their names on the voters\u2019 register. However, the delegates were permitted to vote on the condition that their votes would count only if ANC Steering Committee deemed them valid.<\/p>\n
According to the Electoral Commision, the votes were sealed and set aside and were not added to the number that was announced.<\/p>\n
They referred the matter to the steering committee and agreed to add the votes once a decision was taken.<\/p>\n
Talks between the\u00a0ANC steering committee appeared to have been underway to resolve the votes that were not included\u00a0in the final tally for the\u00a0top six leadership elections at the time the results were announced. This was the beginning of the ANC missing vote saga that has dragged on.<\/p>\n