Although the intra party elections were less chaotic than the previous ones, many potential voters say they feel cheated as they were "denied the right to vote for their preferred candidates". In Mogoditshane East, a relatively new constituency, one woman who was turned away from voting said she felt cheated after being denied a chance to vote as she had previously verified her name and it was there in the final voters' roll. "I cannot understand why my name is missing when I indeed verified it. This is cheating and they are doing it in daylight. Mme ba ke neng ke batla go ba tlhopha ba tsile go fenya ka gore go itse modimo. Ke utlwile botlhoko tota," she said.
The presiding officer, Kenalemang Ditibirwa confirmed that a number of their members were being turned away and that many of those wanted to break down. She explained that inside the voting centre, time and again they had to offer some sort of counselling to prevent a riot from erupting. "People are affected deeply because they honestly wanted to vote. Turning people away can potentially turn catastrophic as some feel cheated or feel there is some sort of cheating going on. "We had to offer counselling to absolve ourselves from blame and to calm the situation," she said. Despite the hitch of missing names of voters on the roll, voting in many polling stations in Mogoditshane East went well without any major challenges except late at night when Solomon Dihutso polling station experienced an influx of voters when the centre was already closing. People were outside trying to force their way in despite being told it was closing time.
