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Local Government: Municipal Electoral Act, 2000 (Act No. 27 of 2000)

Chapter 2 : Voters’ Roll and Election Date

10. Revote at voting station

 

(1) If ballot papers used in an election at a voting station are lost, destroyed or unlawfully removed before the votes cast at the voting station have been counted, the Commission may allow a revote at that voting station on a day determined by the Commission, but that day must fall within a period of 90 days of the applicable date mentioned in section 24(2) or 25(3) of the Municipal Structures Act.

 

(2) If the Commission allows a revote at a voting station, it must make its decision known in any appropriate way that will ensure sufficient publicity of the date determined for the revote at that voting station.

 

(3) A revote at a voting station must be conducted in accordance with the same procedures that applied on the voting day.