The Electoral Commission has confirmed that the unlawful release of candidate lists for the ANC and uMkhonto weSizwe at the weekend was done from inside the commission.
Chief Electoral Officer Sy Mamabolo details the investigation, “The commission is able to provide a preliminary report as follows, the investigation has narrowed the source of the disclosure to a workstation that has been used to generate and store those reports. Later the said reports were deleted from the workstation. Earlier today, that workstation was secured and imaged in the presence of the officials whose credentials were used to generate the reports.
This after the regulator confirmed that it received two notifications from the IEC regarding a security breach that saw the unlawful release of candidate lists at the weekend.