{"id":59064,"date":"2014-05-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/59064\/how-to-vote-in-the-elections\/"},"modified":"2014-04-30T15:22:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T13:22:52","slug":"how-to-vote-in-the-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/05\/01\/how-to-vote-in-the-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"How to vote in the elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For you to be able to vote in the National and Provincial Elections, you must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>be registered before the voters\u2019 roll closes (it closed on the day President Jacob Zuma proclaimed the election date);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>be a South African citizen, who is 18 years or older on voting day;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>have a green bar-coded ID book, a valid Temporary Identification Certificate (TIC) or a smartcard ID; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>be registered on the voters\u2019 roll.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What to expect when you get to the voting station:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0You will give your ID\/TIC\/smartcard to the IEC Official on duty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>He or she will look for your name on the voters\u2019 roll and cross it off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An IEC official will give you two ballot papers that he\/she will stamp at the back. This prevents people from trying to bring ballots in from elsewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why two ballot papers?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One paper is to choose your preferred political party for the National Assembly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The other paper is to choose your party for the Provincial Legislature for the province in which you live.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What information will be on the ballot paper?<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The full name of each political party<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The abbreviated (shortened) name of each party<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The logo or symbol of each party<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0A photograph of each party leader<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A blank space to indicate the party of your choice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can you be assisted when voting?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anyone with a disability can choose someone who is over 18 to help them. The person you choose cannot be a political party agent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Anyone who cannot read or write can only be assisted by the Presiding Officer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two party agents must be there too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Information taken from the IEC website at www.elections.org.za<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='326365bc0c2b5aaad6443da14e4e61d4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you can expect when you arrive at your voting station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":59181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2903,2],"tags":[3266,3385,2737,2734,2076,3362],"class_list":["post-59064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-elections-2014","category-news-headlines","tag-elections-2014","tag-how-to-vote","tag-iec","tag-melissa-hart","tag-vote","tag-voting-stations"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Elections 2014"},"tag_labels":["elections 2014","how to vote","iec","melissa hart","vote","voting stations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}