The Electoral Commission is today launching an online address capture campaign
which will allow South Africa’s 26 million registered voters to check, confirm
and update their address details via the Electoral Commission’s website.
The facility is available at www.elections.org.za/MyIEC.
The campaign is directed at all registered
voters:
those
for whom we do not have an address;
those
whose addresses might be incomplete on our voters’ roll;
those
who might have moved and need to update their addresses;
and
those whose addresses remain the same must still confirm them for correctness.
The initiative forms part of the ongoing campaign
by the Electoral Commission to obtain the addresses for all voters as well as
ensuring voters are registered in correct voting district segments in line with
the ruling of the Constitutional Court in June 2016.
In its ruling the Constitutional Court granted the
Electoral Commission a reprieve from this obligation which allowed the 2016
Municipal Elections to proceed but ruled it must comply by June 2018.
Through a variety of initiatives the Electoral
Commission has made significant progress in addressing the challenge including:
Increasing
the proportion of complete addresses from 34% of registered voters in March
2016 to 73% of registered voters currently;
Reducing
the proportion of incomplete or generic addresses from 34% in March 2016 to 15%
currently; and
Reducing
the percentage of registered voters without any recorded address from 32% to
approximately 11%.
However, a considerable challenge remains to obtain
addresses for about 3 million voters without any address and provide complete
address information for the approximately 4 million voters who have an
incomplete or generic address.
For registered voters who have access to the
internet, it is easy: They only have to click, check and confirm their
addresses on the online My IEC platform. Users will also be able to help
friends and family to do the same.
For those registered voters who do not have access
to the internet, it is proposed to open voting stations during 2018 to allow
voters to check and provide address details face-to-face at their voting
station.
The online campaign will be supported by a
comprehensive communication campaign to explain and promote the facility via
various media including television, radio, print and online.
The IEC Contact Centre (0800 11 8000) has also been
activated Monday to Friday during office hours to assist voters.
ISSUED BY THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION
Ensuring free and fair elections
Centurion
11 October 2017
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