2024 Elections | Lost ballot box was counted, says IEC

JOHANNESBURG - The IEC says an investigation is underway after one ballot box was lost in KwaZulu-Natal.

The commission promptly allayed any fears of compromise by adding that the ballot in question had already been counted and captured before it disappeared.

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National General Manager of Operations at the IEC Granville Abrahams says the box went missing after being transported from a Ward 14 voting station in uMhlathuze in KwaZulu-Natal.

The Electoral Commission appeals to citizens in and around Ward 14 uMhlathuze, in KwaZulu-Natal, to be on the lookout for an IEC branded ballot box that went missing in transit from the voting station Matamzana Dube School in VD 43412767, KZN282, uMhlathuze, to the municipal… pic.twitter.com/lTA8FXpDaB

— IEC South Africa (@IECSouthAfrica) May 30, 2024