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United
States Embassy concerned over the tabulation of vote counts
US Embassy in Zimbabwe
April 06, 2005
The United States Embassy in
Zimbabwe today released a statement documenting patterns of irregularities
that raise additional concerns about last week's election. Twenty-five
U. S. Embassy teams observed more than 350 polling stations in 59 constituencies.
These observers noted a number of irregularities, including a lack of
transparency in tabulation of votes, police and ZANU-PF agents having
an inappropriate role in the voting process, location of some polling
stations in non-neutral places, and a high percentage of voters turned
away.
The statement calls on the
Zimbabwean Election Commission to release the voting results of the individual
polling stations as expeditiously as possible and notes that the absence
of this information undermines confidence in the electoral process.
Read
the full text of the statement issued by the United States Embassy
in Harare on April 6, 2005.
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