{"id":203668,"date":"2025-07-31T15:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-evidence-for-claim-kenyas-electoral-commission-will-delete-2-million-ghost-voters-before-2027-elections-graphic-fake\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:43:24","slug":"kenya-no-evidence-for-claim-kenyas-electoral-commission-will-delete-2-million-ghost-voters-before-2027-elections-graphic-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-evidence-for-claim-kenyas-electoral-commission-will-delete-2-million-ghost-voters-before-2027-elections-graphic-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: No Evidence for Claim Kenya&#8217;s Electoral Commission Will Delete 2 Million Ghost Voters Before 2027 Elections &#8211; Graphic Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>No evidence for claim Kenya&#8217;s electoral commission will delete 2 million ghost voters before 2027 elections &#8211; graphic fake<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> A graphic circulating on social media in Kenya claims that millions of ghost voters will be removed from the register before the 2027 elections. But the graphic is fake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">A graphic that started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0CSpwZjauqo1i31dzEsNNbZM87xJWMFvTC9x8u7HuDn8Rsa4SXanyA3D6cBKkCbqal&amp;id=100073698656101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">circulating<\/a> on social media on 4 July 2025 attributed a controversial quote to Erastus Edung Ethekon, who it claimed was the new chair of Kenya&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iebc.or.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Independent Electoral and&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507310197.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No evidence for claim Kenya&#8217;s electoral commission will delete 2 million ghost voters before 2027 elections &#8211; graphic fake IN SHORT: A graphic circulating on social media in Kenya claims that millions of ghost voters will be removed from the register before the 2027 elections. But the graphic is fake. A graphic that started circulating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":203669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8667,6274,19605,821,7239,7013,6891,10363,28476,4688,430,6097,5118,257,254,7243],"class_list":["post-203668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claim","tag-commission","tag-delete","tag-elections","tag-electoral","tag-evidence","tag-fake","tag-ghost","tag-graphic","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-million","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-voters"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/203668","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}