JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Numerous residents sat eagerly at their retirement home to cast their special ballots, avoiding long queues expected on Wednesday.
The special voting process is
for registered voters who are unable to travel to a voting station because of
physical challenges such as disability, pregnancy or advanced age.
Independent Electoral
Commission (IEC) staff also visited the elderly at their homes to assist them
with exercising their right to vote and explained the process to them.
South Africa's election will
determine how weary the country has become of the ruling African National
Congress party, which has been in power since the end of the apartheid system
of white minority rule 30 years ago.
The main election day is
Wednesday and people will vote in all nine provinces.
It will decide the makeup of
both the national and provincial legislatures.
Results are expected within
days.
Nearly 28 million of the
population of 62 million are registered to vote in what is only the country's
seventh fully democratic national election since apartheid was dismantled.
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