{"id":3702,"date":"2023-10-12T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T10:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1307007.us31.myftpupload.com\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2023-10-12T10:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T10:57:31","slug":"liberia-2023-elections-highlights-of-necs-first-public-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/liberia-2023-elections-highlights-of-necs-first-public-address\/","title":{"rendered":"LIBERIA 2023 ELECTIONS: Highlights of NEC\u2019s first public address after the close of polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liberia\u2019s election management body, the National Elections Commission (NEC) in its first public address has released some provisional results and provided crucial updates about the electoral process following the October 10, 2023, general elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 2.4 million registered voters were expected to cast their ballots and vote for a President, Senators, and House of Representatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chairperson of the National Elections Commission (NEC), Davidetta Browne Lansanah during the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theNECLiberia\/videos\/7028966947155767\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">media address on October 11<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shared some challenges they have encountered with the voting process in different parts of the country, and how some polling places were still allowing citizens to vote even at the time of the briefing.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FtheNECLiberia%2Fvideos%2F7028966947155767%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=2132\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are 3 key highlights of the update by the NEC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Voting is ongoing in part of Rivercess County<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the National Elections Commission (NEC), electoral materials arrived late in a few precincts in District 1 of Rivercess due to flooding of the Tombo River.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voting was successful in all precincts except Suakon Dehbor Town, which was still voting at the time of briefing (October 11).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe NEC magistrate informed the commission that voting is ongoing in Suakon Dehbor Town today,\u201d the Chairperson of NEC, Davidetta Browne Lansanah said (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theNECLiberia\/videos\/7028966947155767\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between 38:22 -38: 32 mins<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>No information has been received from 5 precincts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, due to inaccessibility and lack of mobile network coverage, there has so far been no information from five precincts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs to whether elections were conducted in these places, we still are looking for that information. Once it becomes possible to reach those areas, the Commission will inform stakeholders about the conduct of the elections in those places,\u201d she stated (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theNECLiberia\/videos\/7028966947155767\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between 39:40 &#8211; 39: 49 mins<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the National Elections Commission (NEC) has assured that they will work round the clock to complete the elections in the affected areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Wet electoral materials and bad roads prevented voting in parts of Sinoe County<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn Sinoe County, elections were held on 10th October in almost all of the precincts except Karquekpo and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jarpuken<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in electoral District 2. It is worth mentioning that while transporting electoral materials, including ballots, for the two precincts, some of the materials got wet due to torrential rains and flooding,\u201d Davidetta Browne Lansanah stated (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theNECLiberia\/videos\/7028966947155767\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between 38:32-38:58 mins<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to NEC, the damaged materials will be replaced for the conduct of the elections in affected areas in the next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the voting process did not take place in\u00a0 Togbaville in election District 3 due to bad roads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe NEC will dispatch a team to assist the magisterial team in the county as soon as possible,\u201d the Chairperson of NEC added (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theNECLiberia\/videos\/7028966947155767\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between 39:00 &#8211; 39:24 mins<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>By: Julius Kofi Satsi<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia\u2019s election management body, the National Elections Commission (NEC) in its first public address has released some provisional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[473],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-12-at-10.24.25-AM-1024x683.png",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Julius Kofi Satsi","author_link":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/author\/julius-kofi-satsi\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":38,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":38,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8394,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions\/8394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}