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IEC dreams of digital voting, just not in this election
The IEC is gearing up to deliver a more technology-enabled process at the polls later this year.
01 June 2026
The 2024 national elections did not go down well for the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC). The length and breadth of the country saw long queues when the tablets being used to scan IDs failed.
The IEC abandoned the voter management devices around lunchtime, leaving election officials to manually check people off from the voters’ roll. Some voters abandoned the queues. The commission first piloted the devices at scale in 2021, and then fully deployed them ahead of the general elections on May 29.
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