Police, soldiers and officials are lining up to vote across Zimbabwe for a second day after earlier polling was mired in chaos with ballot papers, ballot boxes and other materials not delivered in time on Sunday.
On Sunday angry and impatient police officers smashed windows of a polling station in Mount Pleasant protesting the slow special voting process. Hundreds of uniformed police officers had gone to the Mt Pleasant Hall in the early hours of the day but by 4PM, less than 100 had voted.
Again on Monday officials from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) admitted that the special voting for about 80,000 government personnel who will be on duty during the nation’s crucial national elections on July 31 got off to a slow start.
ZEC deputy chair Joyce Kazembe, a known Mugabe ally, said no voting took place at some of the 210 polling stations countrywide Sunday because printing of election papers was delayed. More than 9,000 voting stations are planned for full elections two weeks away.
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