{"id":298198,"date":"2020-11-15T17:43:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=298198"},"modified":"2020-11-15T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T15:43:12","slug":"printing-of-ballot-papers-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=298198","title":{"rendered":"Printing of ballot papers completed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maria David<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>THE printing of ballot papers for the 2020 Regional Council and Local Authority elections been successfully completed, after printing started last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The use of ballot papers during elections is in compliance with the Supreme Court&#8217;s judgement in February this year, declaring the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) without a verifiable paper trail is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ECN, chief electoral officer Theo Mujoro, in a statement issued today announced that the ballot papers will be Airlifted from Durban in South Africa to Namibia through the Hosea Kutako International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ballot papers are expected to be sorted and distributed to the various constituencies Local Authorities and polling teams in presence of representatives of all political contestants,&#8221; said Mujoro.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added that ballot papers are then expected to be dispatched to all regions during the period of 18-20 November as part of the final preparation for the forthcoming election.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Political parties, associations or organisations, and independent candidates, who wish to observe the arrival of the ballot papers are invited to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Namibians will go to the polls on 25 November to elect new local authority and regional councillors.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":298201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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