IEC voter-status checker and optional activity recording
ANC Johannesburg Region operates the voter-status checker on ancjoburg.org.za/app. Your South African ID number is used to request your current voter-registration, voting-station and special-vote information from the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC). The checker displays the IEC result to you. Without the separate activity-recording opt-in, the checker does not save your ID number, name, IEC result or a named history of your use.
Separate, optional recording consent
Before checking, you may choose an additional, initially unchecked option to let ANC Johannesburg record this check for campaign follow-up. If you choose it, you enter your first name, surname and voting district (name or number). After a successful IEC lookup, the site stores those voter-entered details, your ID number, the consent and check times, and a WordPress volunteer account ID only if the volunteer is signed in. If you subsequently click the Apply for a Special Vote or Check Special Vote Status link, it records when you clicked. You can still use the IEC checker without agreeing to this optional recording.
A link click does not establish that an IEC application was submitted, approved or completed. The application and official status are handled on the IEC’s website. ANC Johannesburg does not retain the IEC-returned voting district, registration status, voting-station details or special-vote status in the activity list.
Who can access and download the activity list?
Only site administrators with individual WordPress administrator accounts can download the activity list. Each download is logged. The list is not published on the website, shared with volunteers as a bulk file or included in the IEC voters-roll download. Access and downloaded files should be limited to authorised campaign personnel.
Retention, security and your choices
Recorded names, ID numbers and voter-entered voting districts are encrypted in the WordPress database. Activity records are scheduled for deletion by 2 February 2027 at 23:59 UTC, 90 days after the 4 November 2026 election. ANC Johannesburg stops recording new activity at that cutoff. Routine server security logs and the IEC’s own processing may follow separate policies.
You can decline optional recording and still check your IEC status. If you opted in and want to ask for access to or deletion of your saved activity, contact ANC Johannesburg using its published contact page and quote the check ID shown after your successful lookup. Please do not send your full ID number in an ordinary email. The site administrator can remove a record by check ID.
This notice concerns only the site’s IEC status checker and its opt-in activity list; it does not authorize publication or use of the separate IEC voters-roll workbooks. See the IEC API terms of use and the IEC’s own privacy information for the IEC portal.