30,000 new voters register to vote

By Tichaona Sibanda

HARARE – Almost 30,000 new voters have registered to vote since the mobile registration exercise was launched two weeks ago, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson said on Wednesday. 

At a press conference Rita Makarau told journalists in Harare that 29,940 new voters registered since the campaign began on 29th April. She also said that in the same period 3,839 citizens used the exercise to transfer their votes from one ward to the other.

The former Judge of the High Court said ZEC is satisfied with the progress achieved from the exercise despite numerous complaints, mainly to do with the unfair distribution of voter registration centers in the country.

‘42,882 people have taken identification cards while 33,645 have used the occasion to inspect the voters roll,’ said Makarau who urged all Zimbabweans to take the opportunity to register as voters and at the same time inspect the voters roll.

‘If anyone has a complaint, they are invited to lodge the complaint with the district offices or the head office in Harare. They should be specific as to the nature of the actual complaint,’ Makarau added.

The ZEC chair explained that the commission has deployed two voter educators per district to educate people on who is eligible to vote and the type of documents that a person is required to submit, in order to register. SW Radio Africa