Electoral Court rules that MK party’s 2024 election case is ‘flawed’
The court dismissed the MK party's case, saying its reasoning and evidence that vote capturing was interfered with were 'not sound'.
The Electoral Court dismissed an application by the MK party to invalidate the outcomes of the 2024 national and provincial elections. The party alleged that the IEC's results dashboard experience a technical issue for two hours on May 31st, 2024. They claimed the IEC interfered with the vote-capturing process and that the digital vote-capturing system was unreliable.
However, the IEC insisted that the system did not crash and results continued to be counted during the dashboard outage. The court ruled that the MK party's claim that the results leaderboard problem affected the results was "flawed". The court also confirmed that auditors found no issue with the IEC's results system integrity based on "proven and undisputed facts".
The MK party's application to have the election results set aside was deemed invalid as they failed to follow the mandatory objection procedure under the Electoral Act.
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