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Images of voter queues segregated by race at S. African polling station ‘coincidental’- Electoral Commission

A Facebook post shared more than 11,000 times purports to show how voters at a polling station in South Africa’s Western Cape were forced by officials to queue based on their race. The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of South Africa says the groups were divided by those who had registered in that district and those who had not to be efficient.

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