{"id":175528,"date":"2024-06-29T13:27:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T11:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-few-young-voters-show-up-for-registration-ecn\/"},"modified":"2024-06-29T13:27:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T11:27:15","slug":"namibia-few-young-voters-show-up-for-registration-ecn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-few-young-voters-show-up-for-registration-ecn\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Few Young Voters Show Up for Registration &#8211; ECN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) spokesperson Mulauli Siluka announced yesterday that only 118 697 young people were registered out of 366 036 registrations in total from 3 to 15 June.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Siluka said the ECN has done enough to expedite the general voter registration process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;We have invested public resources to make sure there is information and voters know what the requirements are for the registration,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">He said young people cannot use a slow registration process as an excuse because&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406280603.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) spokesperson Mulauli Siluka announced yesterday that only 118 697 young people were registered out of 366 036 registrations in total from 3 to 15 June. Siluka said the ECN has done enough to expedite the general voter registration process. &#8220;We have invested public resources to make sure there is information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,30981,4706,724,257,7231,11004,254,7243,7720],"class_list":["post-175528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ecn","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-registration","tag-show","tag-south-africa-today","tag-voters","tag-young"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}