{"id":200233,"date":"2025-12-21T15:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=200233"},"modified":"2025-12-21T15:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:39:53","slug":"iec-targets-15-minute-waiting-time-in-queues-for-2026-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=200233","title":{"rendered":"IEC targets 15-minute waiting time in queues for 2026 vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) is preparing for a significantly improved voter experience in the 2026 local government elections, with an ambitious goal of ensuring that no voter waits more than 15 minutes in a queue. This is according to the IEC\u2019s general manager for electoral matters&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/politics\/iec-targets-15-minute-waiting-time-in-queues-for-2026-vote\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=iec-targets-15-minute-waiting-time-in-queues-for-2026-vote\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) is preparing for a significantly improved voter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/200233-iec-targets-15-minute-waiting-time-in-queues-for-2026-vote.jpg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/200233-iec-targets-15-minute-waiting-time-in-queues-for-2026-vote-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/200233-iec-targets-15-minute-waiting-time-in-queues-for-2026-vote-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/200233-iec-targets-15-minute-waiting-time-in-queues-for-2026-vote-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/200233-iec-targets-15-minute-waiting-time-in-queues-for-2026-vote-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/200233-iec-targets-15-minute-waiting-time-in-queues-for-2026-vote.jpg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/200233-iec-targets-15-minute-waiting-time-in-queues-for-2026-vote.jpg",1200,675,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/200233-iec-targets-15-minute-waiting-time-in-queues-for-2026-vote-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/200233-iec-targets-15-minute-waiting-time-in-queues-for-2026-vote-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/200233-iec-targets-15-minute-waiting-time-in-queues-for-2026-vote-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/200234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}