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            "citation": "FINAL ACT: the ECN Chairperson's announcement and declaration under Electoral Act s. 109(3) (total votes counted, votes per candidate, the candidate declared duly elected under Constitution art. 28(2)(b)). The ECN's own record of the date is its 2024 NPA Election Report (published on ecn.na, Jul 2025), s. 3.4.1.7: 'On 3 December 2024, the Chairperson of the Commission by virtue of Section 109 and 110, officially announced and declared the Presidential and National Assembly Election results', and s. 3.4.1.9: 'On 03 December 2024, the Chairperson of the Commission in terms of section 109 (1) the Electoral Act, announced the total number of votes counted in respect of each Presidential candidate and ... also declared the candidate who has accumulated the highest votes duly elected as President'. The report gives a date only, so observedAt is the end of 3 Dec 2024 local (Africa/Windhoek, UTC+2), stated as such; the report's media programme (s. 2.3, p. 26) lists '03 Dec 2024 21:00 CERC Final Results Announcement', a scheduled time not used for observedAt. Day 6 after the first polling day. Polling ran 'from 07h00 on Wednesday, 27 November 2024 until Saturday, 30 November 2024 at 21h00' (GG 8555, Government Notice No. 1 of 2025), extended at some stations; pollsCloseUtc is that last close, 21:00 UTC+2 = 19:00 UTC (s. 93(1)(a): polls 07h00-21h00). EXPECTED: no statutory deadline (s. 109: as soon as the Chief Electoral Officer has all constituency results). The ECN's 2024 Electoral Calendar (Key Electoral Activities 2024) planned 'Final verification, collation, determination and announcement of National Election Results' for 30 Nov 2024, so expectedBy is the end of that day local; the extension of polling to 30 Nov overtook that plan. The formal publication under s. 113(1) followed: notice signed by the ECN Chairperson in Windhoek on 19 Dec 2024, published in Government Gazette No. 8555 of 3 Jan 2025 (Government Notice No. 1 of 2025), President elected with effect from 21 Mar 2025. The winner had more than 50% of the votes counted (638,560 of 1,099,582, from GG 8555), so no second ballot (art. 28(2)(b)). A challenge goes to the Supreme Court (s. 172); none must confirm the result, so there is no court-validation stage. COUNTS NOT COPIED: the ECN website's Terms and Conditions (Disclaimer Policy, https://www.ecn.na/disclaimer-policy/, read 3 Oct 2026), cl. 3.1: 'ECN's licenses the User to view, download and print the content of the ECN's website, provided that such content is used for personal, educational and/or non-commercial purposes only'; cl. 3.2: 'Content from the ECN's website shall not be used or exploited by Users for any commercial and non-private purposes without the prior written consent of ECN's.' Under the licence rule of 3 Oct 2026 (non-commercial-only terms: leave the counts out), no counts are copied, although the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Protection Act 6 of 1994, s. 16(8)(a), says 'No copyright shall subsist in ... the official text of any work of a legislative, administrative or legal nature' (GG 845, 5 May 1994) and the same gazette is also held, byte-identical, at archive.gazettes.africa; whether that allows the counts is left to a decision.",
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