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Harare Tripartite Elections March 2002 - Information Pack 2
March 06, 2002

• Click here to view Ward Council Candidate details
• Click here to view Constituency, Suburb, Ward, Polling Station details
• Click here to view the NEW Polling Station layout plan

Important notes:

• Assume that you are on the voters roll - go and vote on 9th and 10th March. It's all about turnout.
• Please remember not to shake hands with anyone prior to voting. You do not want to lose your opportunity to vote by having your hands stained by fraud ink inadvertently.

In this update:

A. Helplines for ward and constituency information - Harare ONLY
B. Voting procedure for Harare - significant changes as of March 06, 2002!
C. Documents & ID required for voting
D. What to do if you are denied the right to vote

A. Helplines

Helplines for WARD and CONSTITUENCY information in Harare are now operational from Thursday March 07, 2002 8am

Combined Harare Residents Association/Crisis Zimbabwe Voter Information Centre

These are 24hr numbers from Thurs 8am until date of announcement of election results:

• 793277, 793246/7
• 091-266430, 091-369210, 091-327012, 091-367829
• 091-351896, 091-395342, 091-369210, 091-351583

Volunteers

These numbers are available from Thursday March 07 - Sunday March 11, 2002.

Call any of the following numbers during working hours only:

• 091-245372, 091-252847, 091-212730, 091-262179, 091-239025
• 860480, 861242
• 091-404129
• 496489, 496294, 494178
• 011-403395
• 091-292110

Email support: you can email ward and constituency enquiries to nnap@kubatana.org.zw

Submit lists of names from large companies/factories etc

Employers may consider submitting schedules of Name, Residential address and Constituency of employees by email to nnap@kubatana.org.zw.

We will email a schedule of information with Name, Ward, Constituency and Polling Stations in return.

B. March 06, 2002 - Electoral Supervisory Commission meeting

The Electoral Supervisory Commission (ESC) held a meeting with observers and civil society organisations etc in Harare on Wednesday morning March 06, 2002. Our thanks to Combined Harare Residents' Association who attended this meeting and supplied this information.

Some significant changes and clarifications have been made to the voting procedure at polling stations in Harare and Chitungwiza:

1. New position of fraud ink and voters' rolls in flow through polling station PLUS colour-coded ballot papers and boxes - Harare.

In Harare, there will be three ballot papers. This is how the voting procedure will take place:

• You will enter the polling station, and your hands will be checked to ensure that you have not already voted.
• Your name will be checked on the Constituency Voters' Roll.
• Your name will be checked on the Ward Voters' Roll.
• If you qualify to vote in either the Constituency or Mayoral/Council elections you will proceed as follows:
• You will dip your hands in the fraud ink.
• If your name was found on the Constituency Roll you will collect your Presidential ballot paper
• If your name was found on the Ward roll you will collect one ballot paper for the mayoral vote, and one for the councillor vote
• You will proceed to the polling booths and vote in private according to your wishes - your vote is secret.
• On the back of the folded ballot paper is the Presiding Officer's mark.
  Before you place your folded ballot papers in the relevant ballot boxes you will be required to show the back of the folded ballot paper to the official.
  NOTE: You will not be revealing how you have voted as that information will remain hidden inside the folded ballot paper.
• The ballot papers WILL be colour coded as will the ballot boxes.
  You will place each ballot paper into the ballot box of the matching colour.
  - Presidential paper in the Presidential box,
  - Mayoral paper in the Mayoral box, and
  - Council paper in the Council box.

To see how the polling station will be laid out, click here

2. Clarification on how ballot papers placed in the wrong ballot box will be processed

If a ballot paper is correctly completed but placed in the wrong ballot box eg Presidential ballot paper placed in Mayoral ballot box, the paper will be accepted and transferred accordingly at the counting stage.

3. Opening hours of polling stations

7am - 7pm

4. Polling stations in wards with overlapping constituencies

Parts of more than one constituency extend into the following wards:

• Ward 1 - Glen View, Glen Norah, Mbare East and Harare South overlap
• Ward 2 - Hatfield, Harare South and Harare Central overlap
• Ward 6 - Harare Central and Harare South overlap
• Ward 8 - Harare Central, Harare East and Harare North overlap
• Ward 11 - Mbare West, Kambazuma, Mbare East and Harare Central overlap
• Ward 15 - Dzivarasekwa and Kambazuma overlap
• Ward 17 - Harare Central and Harare North overlap
• Ward 22 - Hatfield and Harare South overlap
• Ward 23 - Mbare East and Mbare West overlap

The ESC claims that voters' rolls for all constituencies represented in a ward will be available at polling stations in these areas.

To avoid unnecessary queueing only to find that this is not the case, make sure to select a polling station which is in BOTH your constituency AND your ward first if you wish to vote for president, mayor and councillor.

Vote anywhere in your constituency if you only wish to vote for the President.

Telephone any of the numbers listed at the start of this email for assistance in this regard.

5. Officials found at a Polling Station

• Presiding Officer is employed by the R-G's office
• Polling Monitors - Civil servants employed by the Electoral Supervisory Commission
• Polling Agents - Candidates' representatives
• Observers - Civil society + International representatives

C. Supporting Documents and ID

Documents which can be used to vote in the Presidential Election

• National ID
• Green National ID form if it includes your photograph
• Zimbabwe Passport
• Driver's licence if it includes your National ID number
• Foreign Passport with Permanent Resident stamp - bring old passport as well showing Perm Res stamp dating back to pre-Jan 01, 1986

Documents which may be needed as proof of eligibilty to vote (if name not on roll)

• Voter Registration Certificate for new voters
• Form of Renunciation of Foreign Citizenship (certified or original) - Zim citizen
• Proof of Permanent Residence prior to Jan 01, 1986 - Permanent Resident
• Zimbabwe Passport issued after July 06, 2001
• Certificate from Magistrate's Court or document from Constituency-Registrar after winning appeal against notice of objection
• Document showing appeal is pending in the High Court

Documents to prove residence in Harare or Chitungwiza for Mayoral/Council elections

• Owner of property
• Current bill to your name at your residential address (eg City of Harare, ZESA, Tel One/PTC)
• Old bill from 1 year ago showing proof of at least 1 year's residence in the city
• Lodger or lessee
• Current bill to your name at your residential address (eg City of Harare, ZESA, Tel One/PTC)
• Old bill from 1 year ago showing proof of at least 1 year's residence in the city
  OR
• Letter from employer or landlord or estate agent confirming this fact - see sample below and attached.

D. What to do if you are not permitted to vote

Make your details and objection known to:

• the observers if they are present
• your candidate's polling agents
• the CHRA/Crisis Zimbabwe Voter Information Centre - they are set up to handle and respond to these reports - use numbers above

Try and vote at another polling station - do not try this if for some reason you have had your hands dipped in fraud ink already.

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