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The Constitutional Court in SA is strong in defense of the SA Constitution - the Court frequently ruled against Government on key issues - while mail-in ballots and vote harvestng is forbidden by law. The media n the main are critical of Government when it comes to corruption and poor administration.
Prior voting is possible and strictly controlled. When it is impossible to vote on election day the voters - eg in old age homes and hospitals - and others away from their place of registration - voters can apply to vote in advance and such applications are routinely approved. An election official accompanied by party agents then visited the voters concerned to collect the vote or must vote at a ballot center - where party agents are also present. Voters have to produce proof of residence and produce their ID document when registering to vote - and on election day voting must produce their ID which is scanned and fed into the computer and only after that is given ballots to complete. It takes time to vote and in the Municipal election ques were long and often time-consuming - it took me nearly an hour to vote in the last election. Chairs are provided for the weak and elderly to sit down when in ques.
Election day in SA is a Public Holiday and those not on holiday are legally given time off to vote. Results are certified by Party Agents and put up on notice boards at the entrance to the polling booths after vote counting is completed. Those are routinely photographed and forwarded to their party agents on provincial and national level where the forms are audited and if anything is questioned the Parties have the ammunition to support their objections. Another issue is that the voters roll is cleaned up on the basis that deaths recorded are automatically fed into the voters roll and the roll is routinely checked by Parties to ensure votes by the dead are not possible.
After the votes have been counted under strict supervision and sent to the Provincial Counting centers - where the counting sheets are audited and certified by independent auditors - after which it is forwarded to the National counting center where it is again audited before entering into the official computer for final determination of outcomes.
There are too many legal conditions that must be met to allow for voter fraud. Whereas the SA Government is basically known for corruption and incompetence - the election system would never be questioned like the situation is in the USA where voter fraud is rife. The idea of largescale mail-in ballots and lack of voter ID's are totally illegal in SA.
If there is one thing that the USA can copy from SA it is the Election Act and the way elections are managed in SA, There is still some fraud possible - but that would be extremely limited. The present Biden efforts to allow for Election Fraud on a Stalinist norm is definitely out.
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