{"id":53919,"date":"2016-08-03T11:18:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T09:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/53919\/elections-2016-interview-with-iec-assistant-manager-moses-pitso\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T11:18:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T09:18:46","slug":"elections-2016-interview-with-iec-assistant-manager-moses-pitso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/08\/03\/elections-2016-interview-with-iec-assistant-manager-moses-pitso\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections 2016: Interview with IEC Assistant Manager, Moses Pitso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As South Africans take to the voting polls on 3 August 2016, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elections.org.za\/content\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">IEC<\/a> Assistant Manager, Moses Pitso talks to <a href=\"http:\/\/joburgtoday.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joburg Today<\/a> about the structures in place to make sure voting goes smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of people are expected to vote around the country and Pitso says the IEC has had a lot of time to plan and are over prepared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The IEC has a number of administrative units called voting districts and in those voting districts there&#8217;s one voting station and what we do is demarcate a ward in those voting districts to make sure that people in that ward do not have to travel long distances to go and vote,&#8221; says Pitso.<\/p>\n<p>Voting stations are open until 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview by Joburg Today below:<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/AoIcUpZ0Z5E' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IEC Assistant Manager, Moses Pitso talks about the preparations for voting stations as many voters make their mark at the 2016 Municipal elections on 3 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":53920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[3345,1357,2815,5413,5414],"class_list":["post-53919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-elections","tag-iec","tag-johannesburg","tag-moses-pitso","tag-voting-stations"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["elections","iec","Johannesburg","Moses Pitso","voting stations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}