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Elections House,<\/span><\/p>\n Haile Selassie Avenue,<\/p>\n PO Box 50274,<\/p>\n LUSAKA.<\/p>\n 11th \u00a0 August, 2016. 11:00 HOURS AT MULUNGUSHI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE ON 11TH AUGUST 2016 Members of the Press,<\/p>\n Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, Over 85% of Poll staff and election materials were successfully distributed to the various Polling Stations throughout the country by 24.00hrs. Most of Polling Stations had opened on time today. \u00a0The following Polling Stations were expected to open late due to terrain challenges which delayed the transportation of materials:<\/p>\n a) Nalolo district<\/p>\n \u2022 Silowana Ward;<\/p>\n \u2022 Yamakumba \u00a0and<\/p>\n \u2022 Shekela Wards<\/p>\n b) Sioma district<\/p>\n \u2022 Liandamo Ward<\/p>\n \u2022 Mbume Ward These polling stations which opened late will be compensated for the lost time. Voting in the following wards has been postponed due to errors on the ballot papers;<\/p>\n 1. Kanyala and Mpungu Ward in \u00a0Isoka Constituency, candidates\u2019details were transposed between the two wards;<\/p>\n 2. Miengwe Ward in \u00a0Kafulafuta Constituency, Mumbwe Ward in Chipili Constituency and Keembe Ward in Keembe Constituency had transposed portraits on the ballot paper. The Commission wishes to bring to the attention of the public that it is aware of the fading or invisible official marks. The poll staff have been advised to write official at the back of each ballot paper. \u00a0The Commission will also provide ink-pads to be used in nearby polling stations. The Commission has observed with dismay photos of marked ballot papers in Polling booths being posted on various online and social media platforms. The Commission would like to caution members of the public to desist from such actions that would compromise the secrecy of the ballot. There is a good turnout at the various Polling Stations and the voting environment is calm and peaceful. I would therefore like to encourage those who have not yet voted to go and cast their votes before 18.00hrs when Polling closes. \u200b Elections House, Haile Selassie Avenue, PO Box 50274, LUSAKA. 11th \u00a0 August, 2016. PRESS BRIEFING BY THE CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER, MS. PRISCILLA ISAAC 11:00 HOURS AT MULUNGUSHI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE ON 11TH AUGUST 2016 Accredited Monitors and Observers, Members of the Press, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to welcome you all to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press-release"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPRESS BRIEFING BY THE CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER, MS. PRISCILLA ISAAC<\/p>\n
\nAccredited Monitors and Observers,<\/p>\n
\nI wish to welcome you all to the First Briefing here at the National Election Results Centre.
\nDistribution of materials<\/p>\n
\nOpening of Polling stations<\/p>\n
\nThese were expected to open at 10:30hrs.<\/p>\n
\nPostponed elections<\/p>\n
\nThe Commission will communicate a future date for holding these elections
\nFading Official Marks<\/p>\n
\nPublicising of Cast votes<\/p>\n
\nI would to appeal to all Polling staff and Security Officers in the Polling Stations to stop voters from using mobile phones in the Polling Stations as this is contrary to the Electoral Regulations.
\nThe Commission would like to appeal to members of the public that the information circulating on social media that there will be different days of voting for various Political parties is completely false and should be ignored.
\nConclusion<\/p>\n
\nNOTE: The next briefing will be at 17:00 hour today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"