40. Whilst the Electoral Act only provides that the First Respondent must give any person notice, and publish such notice, relating to persons which it intends to remove from the roll, it does not provide for publication of a complete list of persons who would have been removed from the voters roll. In this regard, there is obviously a need for the public to be made aware of such removal, in the interest of transparency in the voters roll. 41. For this reason, the Applicants will move for a declaratory order that in terms of sections 156 (a) and 239 (a) of the Constitution, the First Respondent has the legal duty to publish the names of persons removed from the voters roll and the reasons for such removal. 42. There have been instances in the past where persons have turned up on polling day, only to find that their names do not appear on the voters roll. In this regard, it is important in the interest of transparency that the First Respondent publishes lists of persons whose names have been removed from the voters roll as soon as they have been removed. 18

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