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Experts say the decision taken by the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) to extend voting is questionable.<\/em><\/p>\n On Wednesday, a directive was issued that polling stations should be kept open after 21h00 due to ballot paper shortages and verification machine malfunctions.<\/p>\n Lawyer Henry Shimutwikeni yesterday told The Namibian the act doesn’t speak to that.<\/p>\n “The president is allowed to determine what the polling day is. On the 26 September, the president in a Government Gazette, on the advice of the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Experts say the decision taken by the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) to extend voting is questionable. On Wednesday, a directive was issued that polling stations should be kept open after 21h00 due to ballot paper shortages and verification machine malfunctions. Lawyer Henry Shimutwikeni yesterday told The Namibian the act doesn’t speak to that. “The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185774,"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":[258,256,7430,5060,7791,6918,4706,724,257,7793,254,7755],"class_list":["post-185773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-decision","tag-experts","tag-extend","tag-illegal","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-period","tag-south-africa-today","tag-voting"],"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\/185773","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=185773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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