‘It’s sabotage,’ ActionSA says of name missing on ballot papers

ActionSA is taking the IEC to court over the omission of its name from ballot papers for the November 1 elections. File photo: BLOOMBERG/WALDO SWIEGERS

Senior counsel Wendel Bloem said on Wednesday that papers were filed overnight and the party expects to get its day in court soon. “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,” sad IEC spokesperson Kate Bapela. “ActionSA ... responded with a ‘Not Applicable’ in the space where the political party was required to indicate its abbreviated name.”

“In section 15 of the Electoral Commission Act, it says ‘abbreviated name, if any’. In other words, both these forms and the law envisions a situation where a party might choose not to be abbreviated,” Beaumont said. The party says if the error is not fixed, it will not only affect voters’ ability to make a properly informed choice, but also the election as a whole, as required by the law.

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