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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zambia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>It is unacceptable, that a few days to Zambia\u2019s landmark election, there are already signs of electoral malpractice even before the first vote has been cast.<\/p>\n

It is disturbing to note that reports are already emerging of missing ballot papers, where some ballot boxes delivered to the Civic Center in Lusaka were empty, while others had a number of ballot papers visibly removed.<\/p>\n

We are demanding that the ECZ explains how and why this is possible, and provide further assurances that this act of deliberate, premeditated sabotage against our democracy is not widespread.<\/p>\n

We wish to note, that such incidences have the potential to generate public anger and discontent and can potentially throw the election into turmoil. Issued: Anthony Bwalya UPND Presidential Spokesperson 6 August 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. It is unacceptable, that a few days to Zambia\u2019s landmark election, there are already signs of electoral malpractice even before the first vote has been cast. It is disturbing to note that reports are already emerging of missing ballot papers, where some ballot boxes delivered to the Civic Center in Lusaka were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[234,235,1538,1537,233],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-civic-center","tag-landmark-election","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nECZ MUST EXPLAIN MISSING BALLOT PAPERS AT CIVIC CENTER -UPND - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It is unacceptable, that a few days to Zambia\u2019s landmark election, there are already signs of electoral malpractice even ...\" \/>\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\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-must-explain-missing-ballot-papers-at-civic-center-upnd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ECZ MUST EXPLAIN MISSING BALLOT PAPERS AT CIVIC CENTER -UPND\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is unacceptable, that a few days to Zambia\u2019s landmark election, there are already signs of electoral malpractice even ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-must-explain-missing-ballot-papers-at-civic-center-upnd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-06T22:04:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/08\/img-610db106dc4c9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-must-explain-missing-ballot-papers-at-civic-center-upnd#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-must-explain-missing-ballot-papers-at-civic-center-upnd\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ECZ MUST EXPLAIN MISSING BALLOT PAPERS AT CIVIC CENTER -UPND\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-06T22:04:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-must-explain-missing-ballot-papers-at-civic-center-upnd\"},\"wordCount\":138,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-must-explain-missing-ballot-papers-at-civic-center-upnd#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/08\/img-610db106dc4c9.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Civic Center\",\"landmark election\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-must-explain-missing-ballot-papers-at-civic-center-upnd#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-must-explain-missing-ballot-papers-at-civic-center-upnd\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-must-explain-missing-ballot-papers-at-civic-center-upnd\",\"name\":\"ECZ MUST EXPLAIN MISSING BALLOT PAPERS AT CIVIC CENTER -UPND - 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