The role of the judiciary in the electoral process

I made a promise last week that we will be starting on the subject of elections. This week we will be discussing the role of the Judiciary in the electoral process. We shall briefly discuss key constitutional entities without which it would be difficult to have free and fair elections.

We will introduce such, however, with two words that appear within Section 2 of the Electoral Act.

Under Section 2 of the Electoral Act, a constituency means a constituency that has been defined by the Delimitation Commission in terms of the Constitution.  A polling station, on the other hand means a polling station as defined by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). Only the IEC has the responsibility to set up or determine where a polling station will be.

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