{"id":10482,"date":"2016-10-11T18:45:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T18:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=10482"},"modified":"2016-10-22T07:03:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T07:03:11","slug":"zimbabwe-electoral-commission-compiles-new-voters-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/zimbabwe-electoral-commission-compiles-new-voters-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Electoral Commission Compiles New Voters&#8217; Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says it is setting up a new biometrics voters\u2019 roll, which is expected to be in place by May next year and ready for the crucial 2018 general elections in which 92-year old President Robert Mugabe is the sole candidate for the ruling Zanu PF party.<\/p>\n<p>According to ZEC mapping has already started for the new voters\u2019 roll and all Zimbabweans are expected to register to vote in any national election starting next year.<\/p>\n<p>ZEC chairperson, Rita Makarau, is quoted by the state-controlled Herald newspaper saying the new voters\u2019 roll won\u2019t have anything to do with previous voters\u2019 registers, which were once described by some opposition political parties as a fraudulent data base full of deceased and non-existent voters.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voazimbabwe.com\/a\/zimbabwe-electoral-commission\/3545507.html\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says it is setting up a new biometrics voters\u2019 roll, which is expected to be in place by May next year and ready for the crucial 2018 general elections in which 92-year old President Robert Mugabe is the sole candidate for the ruling Zanu PF party. According to ZEC mapping [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-zimbabwe","type-news-articles","item-year-395","item-theme-voter-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10508,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions\/10508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}