NEWS ANALYSIS: MK interdict report is slim on evidence of vote-rigging
Report to Constitutional Court does not, as it claims, give scientific proof that the IEC failed dismally
13 June 2024 - 05:00
A preliminary expert report attached to the MK party’s affidavit to the Constitutional Court would be inadmissible in court as expert evidence and does not show what the party claims it shows: “serious weaknesses including possible illicit deletion of data, the corruption thereof, as well as the loss of vital information”.
The report is significant because “inherent system weakness” is one of the grounds on which the party claims the election was not free and fair — and the report is its only evidence for why this was so...
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