Cape Town — The Democratic Alliance (DA) says that the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party have not provided a sufficient amount of evidence to support any claims of election rigging.
It filed an urgent application with the Electoral Court to invalidate the election results, citing serious irregularities that compromised the fairness of the polls.
In its founding papers, the MK Party said its cyber experts had counted at least 9.3 million votes that were taken away from the organisation. The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said that the party’s bid did not have enough evidence to show material irregularities, SABC News reported.
The Commission filed its answering affidavit in the Electoral Court to oppose the application which the IEC contends is founded on what it terms as a “litany of wholly unsupported assertions”.The IEC noted its concern around what was considered serious and prejudicial allegations made by the MK Party.”The Commission further submits that the MK Party has not produced any credible and admissible evidence to support these allegations adding that the only inference which can be drawn from this approach is that the allegations were made with the aim of “inflaming the passions of the public,” the IEC said.One of the party’s listed on the MK’s challenge is the DA. In an affidavit signed by the party’s federal chairperson, Helen Zille, the party said it opposed the party’s application to declare the elections null and void, EWN reported.
Zille said the MK Party’s application only seeks to undermine the integrity of the Electoral Commission and cast doubts on the 2024 general election results. She said the MK Party did not identify who the experts were and why they were qualified to do the analysis She said the discrepancy identified by the MK Party between registered voters and votes cast failed to take into account the fact that there were three ballots in the recent elections.
