Elections 2024: No extra voting day, but glitches and snaking queues force IEC to get extra hands to help

The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) was on Wednesday forced to rope in thousands of counting officers prematurely to help them mitigate long queues at the voting stations.There were snaking queues at metros in Gauteng, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape which forced the commission to request counting officers, who were due to work later, to come in earlier.IEC chief electoral officer, Sy Mamabolo, said this was one of the measures undertaken to increase processing in busy areas, where some were claiming delays of as much as seven hours.“The glitches have now been…