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Zimbabwe's Elections 2013 - Index of Articles
Counting
to be done at polling stations - Zec
Brian Chitemba,
The Independent (Zimbabwe)
July 29, 2013
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on The Independent (Zimbabwe) website
The Zimbabwe
Electoral Commission (Zec) has clarified that counting
of votes will be done at polling stations while announcing of
ward, constituency and provincial results for proportional representation
will be done at the respective areas.
Zec chairperson Justice
Rita Makarau said after the counting of election results at polling
stations, they will be transmitted to the ward collation centre
where the winner for the ward will be announced at that level while
those for the House of Assembly will be collated at the constituency
collation centre after which the winner will be announced.
From constituency level,
the results will then be sent to a provincial collation centre where
calculations will be done for the apportioning of seats for the
Senate and 60 House of assembly seats reserved for women.
The Zec headquarters
will be seized with the presidential election results which Makarau
said will be announced within five days of polling.
The Zec chairperson said
they increased the number of polling stations to 9 735 because they
anticipate a high voter turnout while 8.7 million ballots were printed
to cater for 6, 4 million registered voters. Makarau admitted that
the 8,7 million ballots was a high number considering that its 35%
of the number of registered voters.
She added that the voters’
roll hard copy was ready for collection from the Registrar-General
office by contesting candidates although the soft copy was not available.
The unavailability of the voters’ roll soft copy attracted
criticism from observers and journalists who argued that it was
much easier to provide a computerized version than printing the
register.
“We are 99% ready
for the elections since the ballot papers have been dispatched to
provinces while ink and other material is also available. Voting
will start at 7am on July 31 and close at 7pm but those who will
be in the queue until closing of polling will be allowed to vote,”
said Makarau.
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