(b) afford interested parties an opportunity to make-written or verbal submissions; (c) call for written or verbal submissions from other persons or parties; (d) call upon the objecting party to submit further information or arguments in writing or verbally; and (e) conduct a hearing on the objection." In other words the IEC has the power and duty to investigate and conduct a hearing to decide an objection concerning any aspect of an election that is material to the declared result of the election. The reason for burdening the IEC with this duty, I would suggest is because the commission is the only entity with original jurisdiction to rescind the declared result of an election. Such jurisdiction is only given to this court on appeal to itfroma decision of the IEC in Terms of section. 65(6)(a) of the Act. The submission by the IEC that it does not have the jurisdiction or the power necessary to adjudicate such an objection is without merit.