Electoral Commission welcomes the passing of the Electoral Amendment Bill

The Electoral Commission welcomes the passing of the Electoral Amendment Bill by the National Assembly.

The adoption of the Bill by the National Assembly concludes a policy framework that was directed by the Constitutional Court and places the Commission in a position to ramp up its preparations for the 2024 National and Provincial Elections.

Without an approved Bill, the Commission had adopted a position of commencing its preparations for the 2024 National and Provincial Elections contingent upon the provisions in the draft Bill.

Absent this risk-based approach, the work of preparing for the elections would not have commenced. The approval of the Bill now means that the Commission can work with greater certainty and finality.

The Commission is mindful that the Bill will only become law when His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa signs it into law.

The Commission encourages South Africans to continue to use its online Voter Portal to register for the elections.

The last count shows that 220 000 eligible South Africans have heeded the call to visit the Electoral Commission’s Voter Portal to register online to vote since the launch of a national campaign on Monday, 20 February 2023, in preparation for the 2024 elections.

South Africans aged 16 years and older, who have a South African identity document (ID), smart ID card, or valid temporary ID, are encouraged to use the Electoral Commission’s Voter Portal to register to vote for all future elections. Go to https://registertovote.elections.org.za(link is external) to register – it’s safe, quick and easy!

Voters who are already registered and have moved since the last elections, can also check and update their address on the same portal.

Source: Government of South Africa