Elections Day Live Blog #ElectionsZW

 

South Africa’s Democratic Alliance speaks to Zimbabweans going to vote..

https://twitter.com/Our_DA/status/1023926635177934848

 

From Matebeleland. At some point this polling station ran out of ballot papers.

https://twitter.com/nqobilebhebhe/status/1023941908694003713

 

Scenes from Gwinyai Primary School in Mbare.

 

Warren Park, Ward 15, less than 10 in the line. Other classes have no lines at all. In some areas queues are starting to disappear.

 

Check Out SA Gov News’s tweet

[Read] The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (@ZECzim) has assured citizens and the greater international community that they will know who the new president of #Zimbabwe is by Saturday, 4 August. https://t.co/Uf59y1X1ms pic.twitter.com/GrLGhIA6Bl

— @SAgovnews (@SAgovnews) July 30, 2018

Veld fire disrupts the voting process at New Donnington Farm polling station in Norton. Polling agents and officers, and police details have abandoned the process as they joined farm workers to put out the fire which broke put out at 11: 30 am #Zw2018 #zimelections2018 pic.twitter.com/oVbsdtW6E2

— The Herald Zimbabwe (@HeraldZimbabwe) July 30, 2018

1100 out of 1500 registered voters had cast their votes by 2.30pm at this polling station in Ruwa.  

 

 

Mugabe Voting in Highfields

Source : 263Chat

So I apparently appear on the voters' roll twice and cannot vote. I have been movessto some blacklist for being denied.Livid is not even the word. Imma start a thread.

— Fungai Machirori (@fungaijustbeing) July 30, 2018

 

 

Check Out Haru Mutasa’s Tweet.

#Zimbabwedecides2018 some voters say their name appears twice on the voters roll so they have been told by polling agents they can’t vote. Others can’t find their names on the voters roll. Some say voting process is slow. For others the process is smooth and fast.

— harumutasa/aljazeera (@harumutasa) July 30, 2018

 

#Zimbabwedecides2018 some voters say their name appears twice on the voters roll so they have been told by polling agents they can’t vote. Others can’t find their names on the voters roll. Some say voting process is slow. For others the process is smooth and fast.

— harumutasa/aljazeera (@harumutasa) July 30, 201

Welshman Ncube casts his vote in Bulawayo

Source: Daily News Twitter

 

 

Joice Mujuru casts her vote at Oriel Girls High

Source: ZimEye

 

 

Multitudes turn up to vote at St Peter’s Mbare. They get restless as process drags slowly.

People are now disgrantled at St. Peter's Primary School. People are saying they are too slow#LetsGoVoteZW #ElectionsZW pic.twitter.com/YjJSswxDLp

— #6years Annivesary (@bustoptv) July 30, 2018

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Chaos as Chamisa arreives to vote in his traditional constituency of Kuwadzana

#ZimElections2018 Chamisa arriving at polling station short while ago. Voters shouting his name and calling him “our new president”. WATCH pic.twitter.com/dAUnlqHNrT

— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) July 30, 2018

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Allegations of mubobobo

“At glenview 9 primary school things started fast but a police officer came and split the line according to gender saying we have received cases of mubobobo line now moving at a snail’s pace seems deliberate and people now getting agitated” #ElectionsZW

Source: Tweet

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Emmerson Mnangagwa vites in Kwekwe

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09:11. Voting ongoing at Mazowe citrus with long queues of mostly farm workers being witnessed

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09: 04. In Dangamvura/Chikanga constituency where there is a record 59 000 registered voters there was a massive turn out as early as 7 am with voters lining up to cast their vote.

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8AM. Long queues of voters as Zimbabweans turn out in huge numbers to vote

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7AM: Voting queue in Mt Pleasant, Harare:

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7AM: ZEC Chairperson, Justice Priscilla in Mt Pleasant Heights, casting her vote and beimg interviewed by press at Bunnockburn in ward 20 Mazowe South. She called for peaceful elections and urged people to go out and vote.

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Arrived at the polling station at 4.45 am…..number 9 in the line, and it's growing every minute. People ain't playing!#ElectionsZW #ZimbabweDecides2018

— T'apiwa (@TPGandiya) July 30, 2018

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5AM A voter in Kuwadzana who woke up early morning to beat the queue, found hundreds already in line….
He’s number 279 in the queue