{"id":967929,"date":"2024-06-05T04:33:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T04:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967929"},"modified":"2024-06-05T04:33:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T04:33:56","slug":"iec-replied-to-objections-before-results-announcement-sheburi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/iec-replied-to-objections-before-results-announcement-sheburi\/","title":{"rendered":"IEC replied to objections before results announcement: Sheburi"},"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>Electoral Commission (IEC) Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, Masego Sheburi, says all those who had submitted objections to the commission would have received a response before the announcement of the results.<\/p>\n<p>A number of political parties had called on the commission to delay the announcement of the results, which were eventually released on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The commission had received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/945018-2\/?hilite=Objections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">579 objections.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sheburi says when the commission released the results there were no outstanding objections so there was no reason to delay the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>He says, \u201cEveryone who took the pen to raise an objection with the commission would&#8217;ve received a reason of what the commission did with their objection. Where they agreed with their objection, the commission would&#8217;ve told them the steps that they are going to be taking. Where the commission rejected those objections, the commission would&#8217;ve informed the person of the reasons for the rejection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO: IEC\u00a0 received 579 objections:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by Diteboho Ntamane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Electoral Commission (IEC) Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, Masego Sheburi, says all those who had submitted objections to the commission would have received a response before the announcement of the results. A number of political parties had called on the commission to delay the announcement of the results, which were eventually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":967930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967929","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\/967929","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=967929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}