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Elections Laws Amendment Act 1 of 2017

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Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission · Election Regulations
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The essential point

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This 2017 Act required IEBC to provide a complementary mechanism for voter identification and results transmission that was simple, accurate, verifiable, secure, accountable and transparent to support constitutional voting rights.

Evidence: Complementary mechanism, section 19 (inserting section 44A), Gazette p. 6; retained PDF physical p. 7

Why it matters

It also gave the public thirty days to examine a preliminary boundaries report and make representations before IEBC revised it and submitted it to the Parliamentary Committee.

Evidence: Preliminary boundaries report and representations, section 30 (substituting IEBC Act section 36(3)–(5)), Gazette p. 9; retained PDF physical p. 10

Open the key points and evidence
  1. The 2017 text required IEBC to open the voter register for inspection within ninety days of a general-election notice and keep it open for at least thirty days.

    Register inspection, section 4 (substituting section 6(2)), Gazette p. 1; retained PDF physical p. 2
  2. It required parties to submit membership lists at least 120 days before a general election or forty-five days before a by-election, with IEBC publicizing the lists received.

    Party membership lists, section 10 (substituting section 28), Gazette p. 3; retained PDF physical p. 4
  3. The Act placed a maximum of seven hundred voters at a polling station.

    Number of voters per polling station, section 16 (inserting section 38A), Gazette p. 5; retained PDF physical p. 6
  4. It required a political party to hear and determine disputes arising from its nominations within thirty days.

    Intra-party nomination disputes, section 6(b) (inserting section 13(2A)), Gazette p. 2; retained PDF physical p. 3
  5. It suspended the Election Campaign Financing Act until immediately after the 2017 general elections.

    Suspension of the Election Campaign Financing Act, section 32 (inserting section 1A), Gazette p. 10; retained PDF physical p. 11

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