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The New Age Voices - Issue 7
Youth Agenda Trust
October 27, 2010

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Voters' roll in a mess despite election call

Despite calls by Zanu PF leader that elections to replace the ailing inclusive government will be held next year, a glance at the country's voters roll is a cause for concern reigniting calls for a fresh electorate list.

Zimbabwe has the highest proportion of elderly voters in the world, according to the voters' roll that was used for the harmonised elections in 2008.

Zanu PF has in the past manipulated the voters' roll to such an extent that some people who are long dead have been able to cast ballots from the grave and Mugabe has succeeded to do so because it is in shambles and he simply takes advantage of the confusion.

Before the last elections, in 2005, the MDC was able to get hold CDs of the voters' rolls for 12 constituencies, subjected them to digital analysis and found that 45 percent of the names on the list were false. Since then Tobaiwa Mudede, the Registrar-General, has kept a tight lid on the roll.

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