Does the country publish full voter registers at the national level online?

Electoral Act (Act No. 25 of 2004, last amended in 2018)

21. Inspection of voters rolls and provision of copies

(1) Every voters roll and every consolidated roll referred to in section 20(4a)shall be a public docu-ment and open to inspection by the public, free of charge, during ordinary office hours at the office of the Commission or the registration office where it is kept.

[Subsection amended by Part VI of Act 3 of 2016 and by Act 6 of 2018]

(2) A person inspecting the voters roll for a constituency may, without removing the voters roll, make any written notes of anything contained therein during office hours.

(3) The Commission shall within a reasonable period of time provide any person who requests it, and who pays the prescribed fee, with a copy of any voters roll, including a consolidated roll referred to in section 20(4a), either in printed or in electronic form as the person may request.

[Subsection substituted by Act 3 of 2012 and amended by Act 6 of 2014 and Act 6 of 2018]

(4) Within a reasonable period of time after the calling of an election, the Commission shall provide, on payment of the prescribed fee, to every political party that intends to contest the election, and to any accredited observer who requests it, one copy of every voters roll to be used in the election, either in printed or in electronic form as the party or observer may request.

[Subsection substituted by Act 3 of 2012]

(5) Fees prescribed for the purposes of subsection (3) or (4) shall not exceed the reasonable cost of providing the voters roll concerned.

[Subsection inserted by Act 3 of 2012]

(6) Within a reasonable period of time after nomination day in an election, the Commission shall pro-vide—

(a) free of charge, to every nominated candidate, one copy in electronic form of the voters roll to be used in the election for which the candidate has been nominated; and

(b) at the request of any nominated candidate, and on payment of the prescribed fee, one copy in printed form of the voters roll to be used in the election for which the candidate has been nominated.

[Subsection inserted by Act 3 of 2012 and amended by Act 6 of 2018]

(7) Where a voters roll is provided in electronic form in terms of subsection (3), (4) or (6), its format shall be such as allows its contents to be searched and analysed:

Provided that—

(i) the roll may be formatted so as to prevent its being altered or otherwise tampered with;

(ii) the Commission may impose reasonable conditions on the provision of the roll to prevent it from being used for commercial or other purposes unconnected with an election.

[Subsection inserted by Act 3 of 2012]

Political parties, candidates and accredited observers can obtain the electronic voter list in a disk format.