{"id":5726,"date":"2024-10-30T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/?post_type=election&#038;p=5726"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:19:54","slug":"botswana","status":"publish","type":"election","link":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/election\/botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Botswana Electoral Law provides for <strong>advance voting<\/strong>, which was conducted by the Botswana IEC on 19 October 2024.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Shortages of ballot papers<\/strong> at some polling stations led to concerns and resulted in a repeat voting process on 26 October 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ballot boxes and other materials were transported securely<\/strong>, closely monitored, and escorted by party agents and the police.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Metallic ballot boxes<\/strong> remained in use, raising concerns about transparency in the electoral process.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Political parties maintained a strong presence<\/strong>, with UDC and BDP agents observed at nearly all visited polling stations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Domestic observers had minimal involvement<\/strong>, with civil society organisations unable to deploy observers to many polling stations.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5759,"template":"election","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"grantees":[],"observer":[29,26],"partner":[8,59],"region":[72,63],"class_list":["post-5726","election","type-election","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","observer-esn-sa","observer-zimbabwe-election-support-network","partner-esn-sa","partner-zesn","region-botswana","region-southern-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/election\/5726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/election"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/election"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"grantees","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grantees?post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"observer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/observer?post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"partner","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner?post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=5726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}