{"id":967654,"date":"2024-05-31T14:50:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967654"},"modified":"2024-05-31T14:50:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:50:54","slug":"iec-confirms-over-70-of-ballot-papers-counted-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/iec-confirms-over-70-of-ballot-papers-counted-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"IEC confirms over 70% of ballot papers counted nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission has just confirmed that over 70% of ballot papers have been counted countrywide.<\/p>\n<p>Verification and validification are still underway in 8 provinces except the Northern Cape which completed its count earlier on Friday with the Eastern Cape over 90% complete and the Free State 95% complete. According to the IEC, Mpumalanga is 91% complete.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The Electoral Commission has just confirmed that over 70% of ballot papers have been counted countrywide. Verification and validification are still underway in 8 provinces except the Northern Cape which completed its count earlier on Friday with the Eastern Cape over 90% complete and the Free State 95% complete. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":967655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}