IEC completes results capturing in 18 municipalities [SOUND]

# Chief electoral commissioner Sy Mamabolo says results capturing has been completed in 18 municipalities in the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape. He was speaking at the Electoral Commission’s national results operations centre in Midrand, Gauteng. Mamabolo says 35.5-percent of expected results slips have been scanned, while 34.8-percent have been captured. A quarter of all results slips have also undergone independent auditing. Mamabolo says progress has been recorded despite longer ballot papers and higher-than-expected voter turnout: