{"id":8553,"date":"2024-10-11T10:15:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T10:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2024-10-11T10:15:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T10:15:35","slug":"ec-to-set-up-40975-polling-stations-for-2024-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=8553","title":{"rendered":"EC to set up 40,975 polling stations for 2024 Elections."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced that it will use 40,975 polling stations for the upcoming December 7, 2024, general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was confirmed in a press release dated October 10, signed by Deputy Chairman Samuel Tettey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of polling stations for the 2024 elections reflects an increase of over 4,000 compared to the 2020 polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EC has indicated that this expansion aims to improve voter access and ease congestion at voting centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-4694bcadd93e62ac135739dae3b69e80 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bXGk-miHAt4?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This move is part of the EC&#8217;s efforts to ensure a smooth and efficient electoral process, with adequate facilities in place for the growing number of voters expected to participate in the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Electoral Commission hereby publishes the list of all Polling Stations and Special Voting Centres for the 2024 General Election. The total number of Polling Stations is 40,975.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe breakdown is as follows: Main Polling Stations \u2013 40,647, Special Voting Centers \u2013 328,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced that it will use 40,975 polling stations for the upcoming December 7, 2024, general elections. This was confirmed in a press release dated October 10, signed by Deputy Chairman Samuel Tettey. The number of polling stations for the 2024 elections reflects an increase of over 4,000 compared to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[2297,977,2788],"class_list":["post-8553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-2024-election-3","tag-ec","tag-polling-stations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8555,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions\/8555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}