{"id":8332,"date":"2018-04-03T08:09:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8332"},"modified":"2018-04-03T12:21:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:21:28","slug":"burundi-electoral-commission-calls-on-voters-to-verify-their-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-electoral-commission-calls-on-voters-to-verify-their-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi: Electoral commission calls on voters to verify their identification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The provisional lists of all registered voters throughout the country will be published from 3 to 6 April. Annonciate Niyonkuru, Deputy Chairperson of the National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI says the commission\u2019s agents in charge of posting lists are deployed in different registration offices to facilitate the verification task from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. for four days.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8331\" style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8331\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8331\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Vice-president-Ceni-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Annonciate Niyonkuru: \u201cVoters have four days to verify their identification and make complaints\u201d \" width=\"486\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Vice-president-Ceni-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Vice-president-Ceni-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Vice-president-Ceni-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Vice-president-Ceni.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annonciate Niyonkuru: \u201cVoters have four days to verify their identification and make complaints\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe voters must present their registration papers in order to verify their identification\u201d, she says. According to her, those agents will be responsible for posting the provisional lists of voters, receiving and registering the complaints related to the omission, correction and appeals against registration.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Niyonkuru says the provisional lists will be sent to the CENI office after verification in order to proceed with the computerization of corrections. \u201cThe Electoral commission will later on go on with the definitive electoral lists and the voters\u2019 cards,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>CENI Deputy Chairperson says no new registration is allowed during the posting period of provisional voters\u2019 lists. However, according to the CENI ruling on the posting of provisional lists of voters in its article 3, it is stipulated that the persons who, with official documents, justified their absence to the electoral registration centers from 8 to 17 February are authorized to register for the election.<\/p>\n<p>From the beginning to the completion of the registration, 5,008,742 people including 2,382,388 men and 1,618,354 women have registered for the constitutional amendment scheduled for May 2018 and 2020 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The provisional lists of all registered voters throughout the country will be published from 3 to 6 April. Annonciate Niyonkuru, Deputy Chairperson of the National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI says the commission\u2019s agents in charge of posting lists are deployed in different registration offices to facilitate the verification task from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[1177,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8337,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions\/8337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}