{"id":1522,"date":"2011-11-28T06:55:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T11:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2011-11-30T10:02:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T15:02:01","slug":"election-day-in-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2011\/11\/election-day-in-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day in Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elections for President and for 500 delegates to Parliament are underway in Congo. \u00a0I went to the voting place at the Bokonzo Primary School less than 200 yards from our home and took these pictures.<\/p>\n<p>In the picture below, you see the white cardboard voting booths in the back of the room. \u00a0Once you have voted, you fold your ballot in half and put it in the appropriate ballot box.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1524\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/voting-booths-ballot-boxes-blue-Pres1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1524\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1524 \" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/voting-booths-ballot-boxes-blue-Pres1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/voting-booths-ballot-boxes-blue-Pres1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/voting-booths-ballot-boxes-blue-Pres1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voting in Congo.  Presidential ballots go in the blue box and Parliamentary ballots in the yellow box<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The ballots will be counted separately so that the winner of the Presidential election can be announced next week. \u00a0The winners of the election for Parliament will not be announced until about mid-January.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1530\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/ballots2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1530\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1530 \" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/ballots2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/ballots2.jpg 515w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/ballots2-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parliament ballot on L and Presidential ballot on R<\/p><\/div>\n<p>People lined up outside the school to vote.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1528\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/Bokonzo-primary-school-as-voting-station.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1528\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1528 \" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/Bokonzo-primary-school-as-voting-station.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/Bokonzo-primary-school-as-voting-station.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/Bokonzo-primary-school-as-voting-station-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the Bokonzo Primary School was a voting station<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two of the voting stations at the school where in grass-roofed shelters. \u00a0Voters waited in the shade of the mango trees which is always nice and cool.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1531\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/polling-station-with-shade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1531\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1531  \" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/polling-station-with-shade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/polling-station-with-shade.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/polling-station-with-shade-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the voting booths was in the grass shelter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Everything I saw at the school was going orderly with few problems. \u00a0The main complication some of our employees had was finding their name on the list of registered voters so they knew what room to go into to vote. \u00a0After voting in the appropriate room, your name would be checked off the list and they would put black ink on your Left thumb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=1522&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections for President and for 500 delegates to Parliament are underway in Congo. \u00a0I went to the voting place at the Bokonzo Primary School less than 200 yards from our home and took these pictures. 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