It's alleged the officials may have left the centre with some of the results.

PRETORIA - The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in Gauteng says it will verify the results for the City of Johannesburg and ensure that they were not compromised after a protest by presiding officers this morning.

Several presiding officers at the Gauteng election centre sang in protest earlier, upset that the IEC was not accepting their results from polling stations.

Some threw their documents on the floor and its thought others may have left the centre with some of the results.

The Democratic Alliance's Gauteng chair Khume Ramulifho says, "It's because it was not under control and we don't know if some of them left with some of the results, which they carried or they just dumped all the results here. But if they just dumped them here it's not a problem because they can just be captured."

But the IEC's Gauteng Electoral Officer Masego Sheburi says everything is under control.

"I can't confirm that people left with the results. The results were handed in and even those who may have left with the results we've got their contact details and we'll contact them so that they could bring the results back to us. We'll verify the results that we've and we'll still release the results for the city."

The electoral commission has registered only three objections from political parties, however, these numbers are expected to jump as ballot counting nears the end.

While the votes are being counted at the 22,000 polling stations around the country, they are being tallied and collated at the national results operations centre in Pretoria.

The IEC's Stuart Murphy says a handful of complains have been lodged but this number is expected to rise.

"There's a distinction between objections and complains. We received 30-odd complaints and complaints are of a less serious nature. We've received three objections thus far and we expect more to arrive during the course of today."

So far everything else seems to be going smoothly.