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Number
of Zimbabwe's voters up, electoral commission says
The Citizen (SA)
March 19, 2008
http://www.citizen.co.za/index/article.aspx?pDesc=60745,1,22
Harare/Johannesburg -
The number of people registered to vote in Zimbabwe's elections
on March 29 has increased by more than 300,000 to nearly 6 million,
the head of the state electoral commission has revealed.
The total figure of registered
voters is now 5,934,768, up from 5,612,464 in December, according
to George Chiweshe, the chairman of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission
(ZEC).
The names were added
between December and February 14, the cut-off date for new registrations
for the national polls, said Chiweshe in comments carried by Wednesday's
Herald daily.
The elections will see
President Robert Mugabe facing two strong contenders: main opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai and former finance minister Simba Makoni.
In the last presidential
election in 2002, Mugabe beat Tsvangirai by less than 500,000 votes,
a result the opposition refused to accept.
Around 8,000 police officers
have registered to vote by postal ballot, Chiweshe said.
The number is believed
to include police officers deployed to polling stations that are
not in their home constituencies, as well as officers serving abroad.
Chiweshe also said 8,998
polling stations had been identified. It was not immediately clear
if more are to be added.
Last month, state media
said the electoral commission was to set up 11,000 polling stations.
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