Secret ballot was beyond reproach - Parliament
16 August 2017
Cape Town – Everything possible was done to ensure it could not be determined how individual MPs voted in the motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma, Parliament said on Wednesday.
"Parliament wishes to reaffirm that all the necessary measures were put in place to ensure that the integrity of the secret ballot is not compromised, thereby making the identity of the voter impossible to trace," spokesperson Moloto Mothapo said in a statement.
Before the debate on the motion got underway, there were concerns that the ballots might be numbered. As the MPs voted alphabetically, this could be used to identify who voted which way.
Mothapo said the only printing on the ballot papers was an authentication stamp and a simple question with a choice of three options against which to make a mark: no, yes or abstain.