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Cape mom advised to open fraud case

Voting glitch

A Cape Town mother who was refused her right to vote after being told she was registered in Islamabad in Pakistan has been advised by the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) to take the matter further criminally.

On the day of the elections, 41-year-old Michelle Matthee and her husband had visited the voting station at Table View Primary School where they have been voting for more than a decade.

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