{"id":182806,"date":"2024-10-18T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswanas-electoral-body-warns-opposition-about-rigging-claims\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:24:09","slug":"botswanas-electoral-body-warns-opposition-about-rigging-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswanas-electoral-body-warns-opposition-about-rigging-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana&#8217;s Electoral Body Warns Opposition About Rigging Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Gaborone, Botswana \u2014 Botswana&#8217;s election commission is warning opposition parties against what it calls &#8220;reckless&#8221; claims of poll rigging ahead of the October 30 general election, even as some opposition leaders insist that cheating is happening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Independent Electoral Commission&#8217;s chief public relations officer, Osupile Maroba, said allegations that dead people&#8217;s names have been placed on the roll of registered voters are false, disrespectful and absurd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Even so, Moeti Mohwasa, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410180003.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone, Botswana \u2014 Botswana&#8217;s election commission is warning opposition parties against what it calls &#8220;reckless&#8221; claims of poll rigging ahead of the October 30 general election, even as some opposition leaders insist that cheating is happening. The Independent Electoral Commission&#8217;s chief public relations officer, Osupile Maroba, said allegations that dead people&#8217;s names have been placed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630534:ab6a7fc15f9acbf87f9820da2a73f4f4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,7978,2462,10477,8117,7239,257,5675,7869,254,6853],"class_list":["post-182806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-body","tag-botswana-news","tag-botswanas","tag-claims","tag-electoral","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-rigging","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630534:ab6a7fc15f9acbf87f9820da2a73f4f4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182806","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=182806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}