{"id":14510,"date":"2025-11-04T11:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-electronic-voting-not-feasible-for-2026-local-government-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:04","slug":"sa-electronic-voting-not-feasible-for-2026-local-government-elections","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-electronic-voting-not-feasible-for-2026-local-government-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;SA electronic voting not feasible for 2026 local government elections&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Electoral Commission Deputy Chief Electoral Officer Masego Shiburi has confirmed that electronic voting is not feasible for next year&#8217;s local government elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This follows over two hundred submissions\u00a0from the public\u00a0in September,\u00a0with\u00a0many suggesting that a successful system would require a hybrid model,\u00a0combining e-voting with traditional paper ballots.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Shiburi\u00a0briefed the media today on\u00a0the\u00a0measures in place to ensure the 2026 local government elections run smoothly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He has encouraged the strive towards a more digital nation, saying these submissions will be sent to parliament for consideration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14511,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-14510","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Electronic voting is not feasible for next year's local government elections","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19136,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14510\/revisions\/19136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}