{"id":33195,"date":"2017-03-14T17:21:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T17:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/old-voters-cards-to-be-used-in-august\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T10:16:17","slug":"old-voters-cards-to-be-used-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/old-voters-cards-to-be-used-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Old voters\u2019 cards to be used in August presidential elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The National Electoral Commission has said it will not issue  new voters\u2019  cards during the upcoming presidential elections but voters  will use the ones they obtained during  local leaders elections last year. } <\/p>\n<p>This has  been unveiled today during a NEC partners\u2019  meeting  for fast-tracking the progress of preparations in the forthcoming  presidential elections in August 2017. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cVoters  will use  cards issued to  them in 2016.That is why we request everyone to keep it well,\u201d said the NEC executive secretary, Charles Munyaneza. <\/p>\n<p>He explained that 500,000 new voters  will receive get cards. <\/p>\n<p>Munyaneza said that those who lost cards won\u2019t be affected because they  are registered in a digital register  adding that they are collaborating with local leaders to to facilitate people with disabilities to participate in elections. <\/p>\n<p>Munyaneza has explained  that elections preparations stand at 80% while 6.8 million people have been entered in the voters\u2019 register which  will be finally revised in May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential elections are scheduled on 3rd August 2017 for Rwandans in diaspora and 4th August 2017 for Rwandans inside the country.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18746 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umunyabanga_nshingabikorwa_wa_komisiyo_y_amatora_munyaneza_charles-052dd.jpg\" alt=\" NEC executive secretary, Charles Munyaneza. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The National Electoral Commission has said it will not issue new voters\u2019 cards during the upcoming presidential elections but voters will use the ones they obtained during local leaders elections last year. } This has been unveiled today during a NEC partners\u2019 meeting for fast-tracking the progress of preparations in the forthcoming presidential elections in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33195"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33195"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}