NCOP adopts Electoral Laws Amendment Bill - what this means for 2019
10 January 2019
The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) adopted the Electoral Laws Amendment Bill during a special sitting on Thursday.
The bill will enable voters to cast their votes even if their addresses aren't on the voters' roll yet. It will also make it illegal for public funds to be used for political campaigning – other than the public funds allocated to a party in terms of the Public Funding of Represented Political Parties Act.
While there were no parties that voted against the bill, the EFF didn't support it and its MPs did not indicate that they abstained.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will now have to sign the bill into law for it to take effect.