In a move that may further disrenchise first time voters, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has indicated that a voter registration slip “does not mean automatically your name has been added onto the voters’ roll”.
ZEC has been under pressure over allegations that it is manipulating the voter registration exercise to deny first-time voters a chance to participate in the upcoming by-elections.
A few weeks ago, the commission caused controversy after initially claiming only 2 000 had registered as first-time voters throughout the year, but later revised the figure to 2 951 after citizens mounted pressure.
Addressing journalists at a press conference in Victoria Falls on Thursday, ZEC chairperson Priscilla Chigumba said being given a registration slip, a proof showing that one has registered, did not necessarily mean one would be automatically added to the voters’ roll and eligible to vote.
“Registering to vote does not mean as soon as you are handed a voter registration slip to show you have registered to vote that does not mean automatically your name has been added onto the voters’ roll,” Chigumba said.
She added that “there is another process which happens after you register to vote which is a process whereby the documents that you have submitted to be registered to vote are verified by our system.
“We have two systems of verification. Firstly, we verify your national identity if it is genuine. The next thing is we verify your fingerprints which we run through a system called automated fingerprint verification system.”
Chigumba said ZEC would hold a voter registration blitz in April for purposes of ‘sanitising the voters’ roll which would then be used in the delimitation process.
“The reason we have a voter blitz in two phases, one in February and one in April is that after April we then clear the voters’ roll for purposes of delimitation because we anticipate that the delimitation process will be started after August of 2022 which is when the final census report will be tabled before Parliament.
“We do voter registration and start cleaning the data in order to determine who should be on the voters’ roll and who does not have authentic documents,” she said.
“April voter registration blitz is the final blitz which we will use to have registered voters who will inform the delimitation process.”
What a way to rig.
I thought she is called Justice Chigumba! Is a slip nit documentary evidence of registration?
Chigumba and company are criminals that must be locked for defeating constitutional rights of citizens. Why is it not an automatic thing.. if one registers to vote the slip must be automatically uploaded to the voters roll… electronically.. then the print out the physical voters roll. Where is it written that one is not regarded registered and added to the voters roll after being registered??. 🤬🤬. Chigumba is a criminal 🤞🤞
Devil
So the registration slip and voters roll are not related?@ZECzim
Kuita sevakasika munhu , ava vakanyanya mungavadii . Vanoita zvavanoda … Akambotinokora tsoka ndiani .
This is the biggest fraud in the whole process
Chigumba uri munhu wakaita sei chaizvo
Unodiridza dzinde rerugare rwako nemisodzi yedu
So murikuda kuti kudii anambwa imi
Zvinhu zvese zvinotanga naZ tashaya mufaro nazvo.
ZEC
ZANU PF
ZIFA. Asi chii nhai imi?
hezvoonesss
Hure iri richatinetsa iri
Zvatotanga so
So what is the point Mai Chigumba for registering people…. Are you jus wasting state funds…
Tiri kukuonai zvedu kuti mukuda kubirira
Chigumba is well educated she knows what she is doing. She’s blocked that Western puppets called Chamisa and Biti to take our land back into the white people’s hands. MDC will never get power in Zimbabwe, otherwise something never happen in Zimbabwe will happen.
Thomas Sankara you are very unlikely to be normal
Brain washed
Thomas Sankara Wakasara hama unoda nyasha chaidzo
Choya chemadzitateguru ako
What Robert Gabriel Mugabe has done in Zimbabwe it’s a great job that other African countries fail to do that’s why they are still under white people’s slavery. Zimbabwe will never be in the hands of Americans or British. Never!
Thomas Sankara are yu normal in the first place sir ???? Mugabe ambohukura semi remember
Iyi imhata iyi
Ah iwe ka,usajairira vanhu iwe
Chigumba mwari ave naye
We know you sisi
It’s a shame to hear such move kkk
Language of a criminal syndicate.
Kwasara kuzongoti registration slip does not mean you will vote ndoo kwazviri kuenda
Nhayi baba pasi ndepe vanhu ho baba pasi ndepe nhaka zvinhu zvose zvine magumo Thomas Mukanya Mapfumo
Hapana kwatiri kuenda
Kutodhererwa chaiko, politicians can’t you see this ZEC beach akutijairira endai kucourt