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Mudede and ZEC frustrating mobile voter registration exercise
Movement for Democratic Change
April 26, 2013

The MDC is dismayed at the news that The Registrar General and ZEC have refused to comply with the cabinet directive that the mobile voter registration exercise commences on Monday the 29th of April 2013. Their excuse this time is that they are not ready for the exercise. This is despite the fact that they have now been given the money by the ministry of finance.

The mobile voter registration exercise was scheduled to commence on the 3rd of January 2013 meaning that it is four months behind schedule. It is inexcusable that ZEC and Mudede should claim that they could not arrange the logistics for the mobile voter registration exercise for four months.

The actual position is that the Registrar General, Mudede wants to frustrate this exercise because it will destroy the Zanu-PF strategy of using the Registrar General's office for selective registration of Zanu-PF supporters as voters. This strategy was designed to ensure a systematic exclusion of perceived MDC supporters from registering as voters.

We demand that the mobile voter registration exercise be commenced immediately with absolutely no bottlenecks. For example, the residence requirement must be scrapped away totally as it is being abused by the Zanu-PF machinery to stop other people from registering. We demand the unconditional registration of the so called aliens so that they can vote in the watershed elections.

Mudede and the ZEC secretariat must comply with the cabinet directive or resign. The MDC is on record as saying that the ZEC secretariat, who rigged the 2008 presidential election are incapable of presiding over a fair electoral process and must be removed.

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