MIDRAND - The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has announced its election results system is ready for the 4 November local elections following an audit process.
According to IEC Chief Electoral Officer Sy Mamabolo, issues identified during the audit process were fixed.
Speaking at the launch of the National Results Operation Centre in Midrand, Mamabolo said, “Naturally, findings were made during this audit process. Those findings have now been remediated, and the result system is hereby declared ready and fit for purpose."
Additionally, in the quest for greater transparency, Mamabolo said political parties were also invited to audit the result system between 8 and 12 October.
“Five political parties took advantage of this opportunity. No material findings are reported from this stream of review of the result system. Without doubt, this layer of political oversight strengthens our edifice of electoral integrity,” Mamabolo added.
The IEC has also made technical improvements to how election results are transmitted and deployed on the leader board.
"Technical optimizations have been implemented to ensure rapidity on the one hand and secure continuous and uninterrupted projection of results to the various leaderboards and other public channels such as the mobile app and the website," he said.
During the 2024 National Elections, the election dashboard suffered a technical glitch.
This saw numbers on the leader board disappear for over an hour causing panic among some political parties.
However, at the time the IEC assured the nation that the technical glitch had not impacted the integrity of the results and that no data was lost.