BCP sues IEC over EVM

In a statutory notice dated December 5, 2016 to the IEC secretary Keireng Zuze, chairperson Justice Abednego Tafa and the Minister of Presidential Affairs, Governance and Public Administration, Eric Molale, the BCP wants the court to declare “that the Electronic (Amendment) Act, Act No. 7 of 2016 is unconstitutional and violates Section 32 (2) (c) of the Constitution to the extent that it introduces voting by electronic machines and/or computers as opposed to the ballot paper”.

The party also wants the High Court to declare “that the Electoral (Amendment) Act, Act No. 7 of 2016 is unconstitutional and violates Section 32 (2) (c) of the Constitution to the extend that it seeks to replace the method of voting by ballot, which means voting by way of physically marking on a ballot paper to be deposited in a ballot box, with an EVM and/or computer which does not produce a ballot paper indicating how the voter voted and which can be susceptible to counting and verification”.