DA tells voters stuck in election queues to play a game while they wait

The Democratic Alliance spent part of election day talking to people standing in queues. In a post on its official X account, the party asked voters waiting at their voting stations to stay in line and offered them a game to pass the time.

The post opens with a siren emoji and a direct question to anyone in a queue: stay entertained by playing “Drive 2 Election Day” while you wait. It carries a link to the game and a short instruction, “Stay in the queue. Every vote matters.”

It closes with the party’s campaign line, “Stop the chaos. Start service delivery. Vote DA”, and the hashtag #VoteDA.

The post is a piece of election-day campaigning aimed at the one thing every party needs from its supporters on the day, that they remain at the station long enough to cast a ballot. The game is presented as a way to make the wait easier. The party does not say in the post how long queues are running, where, or whether the game was built for the election or adapted for it.

What the party is for is stated plainly in its own words, service delivery, and it pairs that with a call to vote for it. What it is against is captured in the word “chaos”, which the post does not define or attach to any person, party or event.

The Democratic Alliance is the official opposition in Parliament and governs a number of municipalities and, with partners, several provinces. Its election-day message is consistent with its long-running campaign emphasis on service delivery and on its record in the councils and administrations it runs. The post makes no new policy promise and names no opponent.

For voters, the practical advice is the part that carries beyond party politics. A vote only counts once it is cast, and the party’s own post says so in five words.