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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Cape Town – The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has revealed that it was losing about 35 000 registered voters monthly from the voters roll while it was registering fewer young voters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at 2019 and March (2021) figures, there has been a significant increase on a monthly basis. There is an average of 35 000 voters that are lost due to mortality,\u201d chief electoral officer Sy Mamabolo said.<\/p>\n

Briefing the cooperative governance and traditional affairs portfolio committee, Mamabolo said the voters roll has 26.2 million registered voters last month.<\/p>\n

He said there were 14.5 million female voters (55%) and 11.7 million (44%) male voters on the voters roll.<\/p>\n

Gauteng has the most registered voters \u2013 6.2 million, followed by KwaZulu-Natal at 5.4 million the Eastern Cape at 3.2 million, the Western Cape at 3 million, Limpopo at 2.5 million, Mpumalanga at 1.9 million, North West at 1.6 million, the Free State at 1.4 million and the Northern Cape at 617 008.<\/p>\n

Mamabolo said there were only 54 000 registered voters aged 18 and 19 across all provinces.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a challenge for us. We are working with the Department of Basic Education to do an annual programme of voter education in the schools in the month of April,\u201d Mamabolo said. \u201cWe will launch that programme provincially in the not so distant future.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said part of the exercise included voter education classes as well registration of learners on the voters roll.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working on introducing electronic registration modality with the necessary safeguards. The reason we do this is because, for most of young South Africans, their normal political conversations happen on mobile gadgets, be it iPad or smart phones,\u201d the chief electoral officer said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir own public engagement conversations don\u2019t happen in community halls or on newspapers. They happen on social media platforms via smart phone. If you are to attract them into electoral experience of the country, you have to engage them at that level, so hence we provide for an opportunity, for everybody but in particular them electronically.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamabolo said details about the initiative aimed at young voters would be launched by the IEC once the registration tool was completed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is currently under development,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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