"The allegations concerning the election day are not supported hy any affidavits of
voters who intended to vote for the IFP candidates but were scared away or
intimidated into not voting. These allegations have not been shown to have been
material to the declared result of the elections in either of the two wards."
Appellant submits that section 65 of the Act is not clear on whether supporting
affidavits are required or whether the objection is to be contained in an affidavit. In any
event with the extremely limited time periods within which the objection is to be filed at the
Pretoria office of me IEC the overriding consideration was to lodge the objection as soon
as possible.
It is further submitted on behalf of appellant that an allegation that voters of a party,
losing the election by only 3 votes, have been kept from voting is certainly in the wording
of section 65(1) an "aspect of an election that is material to the declared result of the
election".
In any event if the objection lacked detail the IEC in terms of section 65(3) could
have called upon theobjectingparty to submit further information besides investigating the
factual basis of the objection [section 65(3)(a) and (d)].