Action SA takes IEC to Electoral Court

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Action SA has approached the Electoral Court on an urgent basis to review an IEC decision to exclude its name from the ballot paper for the upcoming local-government elections.

The party wants the commission to destroy ballots that have been printed without its name and have new ballots printed.

The commission has until the end of the day, today, to indicate whether it will oppose the application or not.

The Electoral Commission of SA issued a statement this week saying “the absence of the abbreviated name of ActionSA on the ward ballots is because, at the point of registering as a party, ActionSA elected not to register an abbreviated name or acronym”.

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