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ZEC Pushes Voter Registration In Rural Areas

7 months agoTue, 13 Aug 2024 11:50:26 GMT
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ZEC Pushes Voter Registration In Rural Areas

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is conducting a voter registration blitz targeting rural areas where ZANU PF has historically dominated in past elections, but the process is reportedly being carried out without the usual public announcements.

NewsDay reported sources as saying ZEC officials have been conducting voter registration in rural areas without making the usual public announcements that typically accompany such exercises. A villager from Gokwe was quoted as saying:

ZEC visited our community to register voters but without any public announcement. We only heard through word of mouth that ZEC was in the area. There were no posters or notifications, just officials arriving and setting up for the day.

An official from Gumunyu High School in Gokwe North, who requested anonymity, said the registration blitz was targeting learners. Said the official:

It is an exercise that is happening in all the schools in rural areas. So we were tasked to tell the learners about the process. They are targeting first-time voters born on or before September 2006.

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ZEC deputy chairperson Rodney Simukai Kiwa confirmed the exercise to NewsDay but denied that the exercise was being done secretly. Said Kiwa:

There is nothing Nicodemus about it, we are not hiding anything. We have continuous voter registration, it’s not periodic.

Those electoral watchdogs should come to us and we educate them on issues around the electoral processes.

Zimbabwe Election Advocacy Trust executive director Ignatious Sadziwa said:

ZEC has been discreetly registering voters in several rural communities, where ZANU PF garnered the majority of its support during the 2023 general elections…

This Nicodemus and nocturnal conduct by ZEC is yet another low coming from a commission whose integrity is already in question more tellingly after presiding over a sham general election in 2023.

This clandestine operation undermines the transparency and integrity of the electoral process, eroding trust in ZEC and the entire democratic system.

By failing to publicly announce the voter registration exercise, ZEC has denied citizens their right to participate in the democratic process.

This secrecy also creates an environment conducive to manipulation, disenfranchisement, and electoral malpractices.

Election Resource Centre legal and advocacy officer Takunda Tsunga said:

While ZEC is mandated to carry out continuous voter registration, there is a constitutional obligation on ZEC to carry out its function in a transparent way.

To ensure the inclusion of all, ZEC must publicly disclose all registration activities and work with civil society organisations and political parties to alleviate any concerns around the integrity of their conduct.

ZEC is faced with a credibility crisis and their actions must be conducted in a way that restores confidence and credibility.

In previous elections, the opposition and electoral monitoring groups have alleged that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has exhibited bias favouring the ruling ZANU PF party and its candidates.

During the 2023 general elections, thousands of voters in urban areas with a history of opposition support reportedly failed to cast their ballots after ZEC allegedly failed to deliver sufficient ballot papers to some polling stations on time.

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41 Comments

Lilly Tee 💕 · 7 months ago
Zec m**** mukafurirwa munotiriga
Ndini · 7 months ago
Vanhu vanoponderweyi kana vachinyunyuta muru nyarararo ZANU pfuu kaiwe kare taneta kusvetwa simba muchidya nemhuri,nevazukuru isu tichizvimamira
stressed · 7 months ago
please everyone with age of 70 step down youth take over we no longer need grandfathers at parliament the future belong to us abadala laba abayemakhaya bayeloya bafuna ukufela e parliament
theLastAntKing · 7 months ago
70 years is retirement age. In most Western countries people go at 60-65 years, people need to rest and eat what they have sweated for whilst they can. So this should be the same to politicians. They should retire at 70
stressed · 7 months ago
I zec is the abbreviation for zanu electoral commission asisafuni bumbulu plus you treat us as abantwana abasakasela eziko
leeroy · 7 months ago
zec is a zanu wing everyone knows that even judiciary parten
zhang z · 7 months ago
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shadows · 7 months ago
original shadows is a die hard zanu pf . zvimwe ndezvefake. 17 mnhu gara mumba unofira mafufu segonzo
CIO · 7 months ago
mangwana kucharohwa Mbiti yepano pa pindula kugwavhanurwa
unru!ÿ · 7 months ago
🤪🤪🤪🤪
The suferer · 7 months ago
Zanu wasvika kumagumo byebye
evc · 7 months ago
Zita baba hariratidzi kuti mune hope yekukunda
CHITEPO SCHOOL OF IDEOLOGY · 7 months ago
Your vote is your right. You cannot vote without registering. Voter registration is the first step.
👀👀 · 7 months ago
yes its true so why register pipo secretly,
Patz · 7 months ago
Its people who are registering to vote and do they have to shout when they are registering. Registering its not compulsory. Did you broadcast to the nation when you went to ZEC to vote
Anonymous · 7 months ago
To start where a particular party is strongest, is either a foolish decision on the part of their management or direct support of a particular party. For an entity that is meant to be impartial in the eyes of the electorate? And to do it covertly, makes ZEC look even worse. They are putting there own integrity up as valueless.
👀👀 · 7 months ago
ZEC i baby yeZanu everyone knows that,so Zanu haisimudze munondo pasina chekubaya ,mark my words
unru!ÿ · 7 months ago
hoyo tokunangai mukada kuita zvisina basa
Legend · 7 months ago
ZEC inoita hayo registration Kuma offices ayo ese kwete kuzoenda Kuma rural area
eb @legend chirambidza zvawaziva · 7 months ago
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eb · 7 months ago
DAI MANGWANA AFUMA ARI 17 TAONA USHINGI HWAVA NEVANA VEZIMBABWE ASI CHAMISA HAAUYI ANOZOFA
Patz · 7 months ago
There is nothing to complain about here. Voter registration is continous at Zec Offices nationwide. Is there any need to publicise to the whole country when Zec takes registration to schools in a particular area to register voters. Some areas in rural areas are far from ZEC offices and as for first time registrants in remote areas its good for ZEC to proceed their and carryout conscientisation and registration. Registration have nothing to do with being a Zanu or not but being a registered voter. Vanhu veHarare nemamwe maguta where opposition has strongholds havana kumborambirwa registration they simply go ZEC offices
Private Investigator · 7 months ago
Voter registration haimirire ma elections. Hakuna chinonzi secret voter registration; hazviitirwe mubako izvi. Svika kuma offices e ZEC aripedo newe mangwana to get registered.
👀👀 · 7 months ago
l hear you but kuma remote areas vaifanira kutanga vaita alert vanhu ,kutanga vatuma vanhu kt musi wakati tichauya tichiita izvi neizvi,kana kuisa chiziviso pa radio chaipo coz vanhu varikumaruzevha vanoteerera radio kupfuura isusu even patumbudzi u can listen your favoyrite channel,but kana vongonyuka yatoo secert voter registration,munhu haasiye musha wake achiuya kuzo register kuvhota,saka vachizoisirwa even ma hospitals pedyo,ngavazivise vanhu kwete kungonyuka kunge vane hidden agenda
Knvc · 7 months ago
No elections during sadc summit, no discussion on past elections, no political debate, it's a happy party to enjoy, no opposition members invited or involved in the summit. Main story is dams, roads hospitals 2030 ndinenge ndiripo kupedza zvandakatanga. Goodbye sadc inwai tea ndini ndawepanyanga.
Shadows · 7 months ago
hazvititadzisi kupinda mu street
ccc · 7 months ago
shadows Rega kuda kuzotinetsesa nemukadzi wako otsvagira vana Mari yekurarama waenda kwamupfiga nebwe shandira mhuri CHAMISA HAAUYIKO IGWARA ANOTYA KUFA
fugu pfeee · 7 months ago
kkkk enda unofa shadows mkadzi wako ndosara ndichimupa twins.
Shadows · 7 months ago
hauzivi vaukuti vana vako havasi vako arikungo**** wani mukadzi uripo
stressed · 7 months ago
we want to protest peacefully allow us
drc · 7 months ago
wako wakamupa matwins rungani
🏃‍♀️ Chi baby Che Zanu 🌊 · 7 months ago
Perfect timing
stressed · 7 months ago
yaa we want to show them the truth that we are not afraid of death all those who block the protest are benefiting from zanu
ma six two💪 · 7 months ago
yes ma

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