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ActionSA has filed papers with the Electoral Court in which it calls for the reprinting of the ballot papers.

ActionSA says it's filed an urgent application with the electoral court over the omission of the party's name on the ballot papers for the municipal elections.

At the moment, ActionSAs green and white logo appears on the ballot paper but its name does not appear as it has no acronym for the partys full name.

The IEC has clarified that ActionSAs logo does appear on the ballot paper but there is no name attached to it as only a partys abbreviation can be listed on the ballot paper.

The new political party wrote to Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and gave them until 10am on Monday to address the omission of ActionSA’s name on the ballot papers for the local government elections.

Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA has given the Electoral Commission until 10am on Monday to add the party’s name to ballot papers for the upcoming local government elections or face legal action.

ActionSA says that it is taking the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to court after it failed to fix the ballot papers by Monday.

In a statement released on Monday afternoon, the commission explained that the absence of the abbreviated name on the ward ballots was due to the newcomer electing not to register an abbreviated name or acronym.

'The absence of the abbreviated name of ActionSA on the ward ballots is because, at the point of registering as a party, ActionSA elected not to register an abbreviated name or acronym,' the IEC said.

'The absence of the abbreviated name of ActionSA on the ward ballots is because, at the point of registering as a party, ActionSA elected not to register an abbreviated name or acronym,' the IEC said.