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The Electoral Commission confirmed this morning that they had passed information to the police after a person said that he had voted for several days in different booths.
It is the second case of a voter suspected of violating the electoral act since early voting began on October 3.
In a series of posts posted to Twitter on October 12, a person by the pseudonym Tswizzle said they had already voted twice and planned to continue casting votes until Election Day.
“There are boxes for many electorates in each booth. I just went down the street and had another vote in another booth,” the unidentified person posted.
“I voted yesterday and because our system is so lazy and does not require identification, I am going to vote every day this week and twice on Saturday.
“They are eight votes of mine against his party,” added the poster.
The tweets led one user to alert the Electoral Commission, who in turn contacted the police.
“Our investigation of this matter has resulted in a referral to the police,” a commission spokesman said.
A police spokesman confirmed that the Electoral Commission had filed a complaint about a series of posts on social media.
They would be looking into the matter.
There has been another case in the last week of alleged dual voting.
The commission said one person had been referred to the police after they claimed to have voted several times.
In the 2017 elections, 37 people were referred to the police who appeared to have voted more than once.
The police prosecuted one person.
The commission’s spokesman said that in most cases the dual voting was unintentional.
