{"id":78926,"date":"2024-10-18T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ally-angula-frustrated-by-faulty-ecn-system"},"modified":"2024-10-18T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T11:18:00","slug":"ally-angula-frustrated-by-faulty-ecn-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ally-angula-frustrated-by-faulty-ecn-system","title":{"rendered":"Ally Angula frustrated by \u2018faulty ECN system\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Independent presidential hopeful Ally Angula says she has been inconvenienced by the Electoral Commission of Namibia\u2019s (ECN) \u201cfaulty\u201d system, which has delayed her submission of the required number of signatures.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ECN chairperson Elsie Nghikembua on Wednesday announced Angula\u2019s disqualification from a list of registered presidential candidates, citing that she and two other independent candidates had not ticked all boxes for the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p>They were consequently given 24 hours to submit the required number of signatures.<\/p>\n<p>However, Angula says the ECN\u2019s machines \u2018stole\u2019 six of her 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFunctional system access was only available from 20h04 on Wednesday evening, making it even harder to complete the task for the regions, where the required 500 [signatures] have been obtained,\u201d Angula says.<\/p>\n<p>Angula and her team assert that they have captured 5 063 signatures but functional system access only being granted after 20h00 made it humanly impossible to capture all the signatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe system was not tested to assess how many days it would take to capture 7 000 names,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>ECN spokesperson De Wet Siluka disputes that the issue lies with the ECN\u2019s system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it\u2019s not true. It\u2019s the same system the parties are using. They will know what\u2019s delaying them. They must just be honest,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. Independent presidential hopeful Ally Angula says she has been inconvenienced by the Electoral Commission of Namibia\u2019s (ECN) \u201cfaulty\u201d system, which has delayed her submission of the required number of signatures. ECN chairperson Elsie Nghikembua on Wednesday announced Angula\u2019s disqualification from a list of registered presidential candidates, citing that she and two other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":78925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-78926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ally Angula frustrated by \u2018faulty ECN system\u2019 - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ally-angula-frustrated-by-faulty-ecn-system\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ally Angula frustrated by \u2018faulty ECN system\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. 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