{"id":56488,"date":"2022-03-26T18:21:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T16:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/by-election-update-ccc-agents-denied-entry-into-polling-station"},"modified":"2022-03-26T20:25:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T18:25:43","slug":"by-election-update-ccc-agents-denied-entry-into-polling-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/by-election-update-ccc-agents-denied-entry-into-polling-station","title":{"rendered":"By-election Update: CCC Agents Denied Entry Into Polling Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Opposition Citizens\u2019 Coalition for Change (CCC) has claimed that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) denied the party\u2019s polling agents entry into Lawrence Primary School in Marondera saying they are not registered with the electoral body.<\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter post, the party said:<\/p>\n<p>#ByelectionsViolence Lawrence Primary School, Ward 23 of Marondera East our agents are being denied entry into the polling stations to monitor the voting process alleging that they\u2019re not registered with @ZECzim.<\/p>\n<p>There were mixed opinions on the report. Some observers expressed frustration in the party for not being proactive. Pindula News presents some of the comments on the post:<\/p>\n<p><b>Viv T. @viv_sibanda:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Are they registered?<\/p>\n<p>Pikaz @Jawachawa:<\/p>\n<p>Just let them show evidence of registration<\/p>\n<p><b>Law Togaraseyi @TogaraseyiLaw:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Why did they not register?<\/p>\n<p><b>Moron @igweeboss:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Some of your tweets expose kusarongeka kwe party. Ma agents anoenda Nhasi? Or anorara pa station<\/p>\n<p><b>Acknowledge Mkhwekhwe\u2122 @ackymkhwekhwe:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Kana wakamboitawo agent waisa bvunza mubvunzo iwowo<\/p>\n<p>LLOON @LLOON_kids:<\/p>\n<p>Did they register? Are they required to register? Is this their first time at that polling station? Thought they came there for training and etc before.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lee @leethamboh1:<\/p>\n<p>So varikuenda nhasi really?<\/p>\n<p><b>PeeNyamzihwa, The Lion Roar @PNyamzihwa:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday you were saying that all the Agents had been deployed to guard the ballots, now where are they coming from? did they not sleep there?<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Opposition Citizens\u2019 Coalition for Change (CCC) has claimed that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) denied the party\u2019s polling agents entry into Lawrence Primary School in Marondera saying they are not registered with the electoral body. In a Twitter post, the party said: #ByelectionsViolence Lawrence Primary School, Ward 23 of Marondera East our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":56487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,8265,19,2127],"class_list":["post-56488","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-zimbabwe-2","tag-citizens-coalition-for-change-ccc","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-electoral-commission-zec"],"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>By-election Update: CCC Agents Denied Entry Into Polling Station - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Opposition Citizens\u2019 Coalition for Change (CCC) has claimed that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) denied the part ...\" \/>\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\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/by-election-update-ccc-agents-denied-entry-into-polling-station\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"By-election Update: CCC Agents Denied Entry Into Polling Station\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Opposition Citizens\u2019 Coalition for Change (CCC) has claimed that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) denied the part ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/by-election-update-ccc-agents-denied-entry-into-polling-station\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-26T16:21:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-26T18:25:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/img-623f5a8b419b9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\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\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/by-election-update-ccc-agents-denied-entry-into-polling-station#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/by-election-update-ccc-agents-denied-entry-into-polling-station\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"By-election Update: CCC Agents Denied Entry Into Polling Station\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-26T16:21:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-26T18:25:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/by-election-update-ccc-agents-denied-entry-into-polling-station\"},\"wordCount\":243,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/by-election-update-ccc-agents-denied-entry-into-polling-station#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/img-623f5a8b419b9.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zimbabwe\",\"Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)\",\"Zimbabwe\",\"Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/by-election-update-ccc-agents-denied-entry-into-polling-station#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/by-election-update-ccc-agents-denied-entry-into-polling-station\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/by-election-update-ccc-agents-denied-entry-into-polling-station\",\"name\":\"By-election Update: CCC Agents Denied Entry Into Polling Station - 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