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Zimbabweans turning 18 will be automatically added to the voters’ roll under a new system which the government plans to introduce before the 2028 elections.
In an interview with <a href="https://www.sundaymail.co.zw/automatic-voter-registration-for-18-year-olds">The Sunday Mail</a>, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said that the proposed Constitutional Amendment Bill will transfer voter registration responsibility from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to the Civil Registry Department (CRD).
The CRD will use biometric and personal data collected during national ID applications to automatically register eligible voters.
Voters will be assigned to polling stations based on the residential address used during ID card registration.
Those who change addresses can update this information before registration to ensure correct polling station assignment.
The Registrar-General’s Office will automatically remove deceased individuals from the voters’ roll once a death certificate is issued.
The proposed amendments will remove the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) from its role in delimiting constituency boundaries.
The government is considering reinstating an independent commission to handle this responsibility, as was the case before 2009.
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

Pindula News

Zimbabwe is changing the way people can register to vote. Now, when you turn 18, you will be automatically added to the list of voters. This new system will use data from your national ID to do this. The government wants to make sure that everyone who is eligible to vote can do so easily. They are also looking at making sure that people are put in the right polling stations. The government is also thinking of bringing back a commission to help with making these decisions, which was used in the past.

Zimbabwe Plans Automatic Voter Registration For 18-Year-Olds

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is experiencing what it calls a temporary shortage of thermal paper rolls used to print voter registration confirmation receipts at some centres.
In a statement issued on Monday, 20 March, ZEC Acting Chief Elections Officer, Jane Chigidji said the shortage of the paper should not discourage aspiring registrants from registering. Reads the statement:
<blockquote>
The Commission is encouraging aspiring registrants to feel comfortable registering at some centres that would have temporarily run out of thermal paper roll used to print voter registration confirmation receipts.
The unavailability of a confirmation receipt does not affect one’s registration as a voter.
Those in need of the receipts will be advised in due course regarding when and where to collect them.
Any inconvenience caused is sincerely regretted.
</blockquote>
Last week, ZEC announced the extension of the final nationwide mobile biometric voter registration exercise deadline by five days, from 21 March to 26 March.
More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

ZEC Fails To Give Voter Registration Confirmation Receipts To Aspiring Voters

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says recurring unscheduled power cuts are negatively affecting the ongoing final mobile voter registration blitz at some centres.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, ZEC said the situation has been worsened by the cloudy weather conditions prevailing in some parts of the country.
ZEC, however, assured citizens that all people who are eligible and willing will be registered for the upcoming harmonised elections. ZEC said:
<blockquote>
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) hereby notifies the public that it is currently experiencing technical difficulties at some of its registration centres.
This is due to shortages of electricity affecting the charging of the BVR kits.
The situation is also worsened by the cloudy weather, which affects the solar-powered BVR kits.
ZEC assures the public that every eligible citizen will be registered.
</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

Load Shedding Affecting Voter Registration - ZEC

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said that it is targeting to register at least a million new voters ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Speaking on ZBC News and Current Affairs Online programme, Inside Out, ZEC spokesperson, Joice Leticia Kazembe, said those who turned 18 after the last election should take advantage of the ongoing mobile biometric voter registration blitz and register to vote. Said Kazembe:
<blockquote>
Of particular interest to us are the youths the ones that have turned 18 and have not had a chance to register since the number has been growing since the last election.
Even the adults that have not registered should take the opportunity and register because our target is to register one million new voters.
… We have set up an electoral code of conduct that will guide candidates on how they should behave and anyone who is aggrieved can approach the commission and those found wanting will be called in and questioned.
If there are any complaints against one person then action will be taken.
</blockquote>
ZEC recently said it will set up more than 2 700 mobile voter registration centres across the country during the first phase of the mobile Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) exercise ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The first phase of the mobile Biometric Voter Registration will run from 1 February to 28 February, while the second phase will be conducted between 10 April and 30 April.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.zbcnews.co.zw/zec-targets-to-register-one-million-new-voters/">ZBC News</a></h4>

ZEC Targets To Register One Million New Voters

Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba said the electoral body has detected numerous people who registered to vote multiple times after receiving incentives from NGOs and civic groups.
Speaking on a local television station, ZTN, Chigumba said the ZEC system works on the basis of biometrics as primary identification and not on national identity and is, therefore, able to detect multiple voter registrants. Said Chigumba:
<blockquote>
There were a lot of people who were given incentives to register to vote. Those people did not disclose to the NGOs [non-governmental organisations] and to the civil society organisations that they were already registered to vote in order to access the incentives.
Those people were then flagged by our system that there is a person with one set of fingerprints who registered six times to vote, but they were already on the voters’ roll.
So what happens in our system is that if you register 10 times to vote, it will only recognise one file, it will only say that there is one registrant. You cannot cheat the ZEC voter registration system.
</blockquote>
Several civic groups have criticised ZEC’s voter registration exercise as not inclusive and likely to disenfranchise thousands of potential first-time voters. Added Chigumba:
<blockquote>
Our system works on the basis of fingerprints as primary identification. The system does not care about your national identity.
It notifies us that there is one person who is trying to register six or more times. We only accept one set of fingerprints per person and we reject the others.
This is what is happening, It has been reported to us that they would deliberately go to registration centres and they would deliberately go to different organisations that are mobilising people to register to vote and they would access incentives and when it comes to being entered as a registrant on the voters’ roll, this identifies them as multiple registrants.
</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2022/01/csos-sponsoring-multiple-voters-zec/">NewsDay</a></h4>

You Cannot Cheat The ZEC Voter Registration System - Chigumba

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa, has complained over the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and Registrar General’s office’s failure to register new voters especially the youths.
Addressing journalists during a press conference in Harare on Wednesday, MDC Alliance Secretary for elections Ian Makone said their party was piling pressure on ZEC and Register General’s office to register new voters. Said Makone:
<blockquote>
The existing facilities are underutilised and it is a clear admission that there is no system that is responsive to the reality on the ground, and these are the issues we are highlighting.
We are, therefore, proposing that all of us put sufficient pressure on ZEC to do what they are capable of doing by the law and we wonder why they are not doing it.
In 2017, when the BVR (Biometric Voter Registration) was introduced we had enough registration kits.
Those kits are now gathering dust and it is a shame that we collectively allow that kind of thing to continue.
</blockquote>
Makone called on both ZEC and the registrar’s offices to decentralise their operations in order to enable citizens to acquire identification documents and register to vote.
Party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere added the MDC Alliance’s focus was assisting the youths to register to vote. She said:
<blockquote>
Our clear message for the young is to register to vote. Once you register to vote, the kind of change we promise is change that actually services your needs.
</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/bvr-machines-gathering-dust-chamisas-mdc/">NewZimbabwe.com</a></h4>

Chamisa's MDC Calls For The Decentralisation Of ZEC Operations

Shingi Munyeza makes a number of points on why some are not registering to vote and why you should vote. Below are the main points that he has observed have been given by citizens as reasons why they are not registering to vote:
<ul>
<li>The candidates are not inspiring</li>
<li>Current environment is not conducive. People are afraid</li>
<li>Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and other arms of Government that should ensure credible elections have been compromised and as a result the outcome is predetermined.</li>
</ul>
Watch the video below on why you should register to vote:
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Why some are not registering to vote & why you should: Shingi Munyeza

Justice Minister Happyton Bonyongwe has said that Government has availed 300 tonnes of rice to be awarded to top 10 districts that mobilise the most registrants under the ongoing Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) programme.
He revealed this last week at the National Chiefs Conference in Bulawayo. Said Bonyongwe:
<blockquote>The district that will register the highest number of voters per province will receive a truckload of rice, which amounts to 30 tonnes per district. So, in 10 provinces it will be equivalent to 300 tonnes. It’s now a competition, lets encourage people to register as voters. So if you become number one, that is the prize that is coming your way.</blockquote>
More: <a href="http://www.herald.co.zw/govt-avails-300t-rice-to-encourage-bvr-uptake/">Herald</a>

Govt to award top 10 districts that register the most voters

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says it has engaged the Ministry of Home Affairs to grant voter registration supervisors commissioner of oaths status to assist people without proof of residence documents at registration centres.
Said Makarau:
<blockquote>We have also observed that, mainly in the rural areas, we do not have any challenges relating to proof of residence and that the issue of commissioners of oaths is an issue we need to address mainly for our urban registrants, and it is an issue that we are already addressing. We have been in touch with the Ministry of Home Affairs. We have requested them to grant our voter registration supervisors commissioner of oaths status just for this exercise so that we may make it easy for people who may not have documents to prove their residency in the urban areas.</blockquote>
However political parties have called on ZEC to do away with proof of residence. As at October 25, 2017, about 24 130 individuals had been turned away at ZEC’s 2 075 centres countrywide. The second phase of voter registration which began yesterday will run until November 13, while the third segment will take place between November 16 and December 1. The last leg will run from December 4 to December 19.
More: <a href="http://www.herald.co.zw/bvr-enters-second-phase-commissioner-of-oaths-status-for-voter-reg-supervisors/">Herald</a>

ZEC voter registration supervisors to be granted commissioner of oaths status

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said that as of Sunday it had registered 954 900 people in the country’s 10 provinces with the biometric voter registration system as of Sunday, with over 22 000 having been turned away for non-compliance.
ZEC public relations officer Mr Brian Tomo said potential voters were being turned away for not complying with the stipulated requirements of the new exercise. Said Tomo:
<blockquote>Total voters registered to date is 954, 900. This figure includes figures from the static registration centres for the period September 18 to October 9, 2017. The above figures show that there are no returns or submissions from 720 centres with 2 697 kits used on October 22 due to network and communication challenges. Figures from these remote and inaccessible centres are coming at different intervals as and when they manage to get the network or travel to accessible areas.</blockquote>
The first phase runs from October 10 to 26, while the second phase will be done from October 29 to November 13 and the third segment will take place between November 16 and December 1. The last phase will run from December 4 to 19.
More: <a href="http://www.herald.co.zw/zec-registers-almost-1m-on-bvr/">Herald</a>

ZEC registers almost 1 million people on BVR

Addressing the Zanu-PF leadership, which included Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and party supporters at Fair Acres Arda Estate in Zhombe yesterday, Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration Ignatius Chombo said that Government will consider removing proof of residence as a voter registration requirement.
Said Chombo:
<blockquote>The voter registration programme is going on well, but there are some challenges facing the people, mainly to do with the issue of affidavits for proof of residence. Some people have been turned away. So, we are going to sit down and look into the problem and see how that problem can be addressed.</blockquote>
Chombo also encouraged everyone to go and register even those that have been voting since 1980.
More: <a href="http://www.herald.co.zw/govt-to-review-voter-registration-requirements/">Herald</a>

Govt to consider scrapping proof of residence for voter registration

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission ZEC has released a report which shows the number of people who have registered to vote using the Biometric Voter Registration system as of the 14th of October, 2017.  The numbers are not looking great at the moment.
Here are the stats:
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Less than 2 percent of people have registered to vote in Harare, Bulawayo

As a member of Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)’s member lawyers operating from the provinces are offering free Commissioner of Oaths services to assist those who are registering during this ongoing Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) process. Mobile services are available upon request and these will be benefiting some marginalised communities.
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Contact Details for ZLHR Lawyers Serving as Free Commissioners of Oaths during BVR Process

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) will roll out a massive voter registration exercise beginning October 10 and has established 2 508 registration centres countrywide for the first phase of the exercise. 
It will last 72 days and will be done in four segments. The first phase runs from October 10 to 26. The second phase will be done from October 29 to November 13. The third segment will take place between November 16 and December 1. While the last phase will be  from December 4 to 19
For the first phase, Harare will have 167 registration centres, Bulawayo (108), Masvingo (322), Manicaland (345), Midlands (359), Matabeleland North (220), Matabeleland South (164), Mashonaland East (289), Mashonaland Central (225), and Mashonaland West (309). 
More: <a href="http://www.herald.co.zw/voter-registration-blitz-begins-on-tuesday/">Herald</a>

ZEC to decentralise voter registration

Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson Justice Rita Makarau confirmed that the received the remaining 2 600 biometric voter registration (BVR) kits from Chinese firm Laxton Group. This brings the total number of BVR kits to 3 000.
She said that the blitz is now expected to begin anytime soon. Said Makarau:
<blockquote>I can confirm that the kits are in the country now and that at the moment they are undergoing acceptance tests by our technicians and technical experts. This is meant to see that they meet the specifications that we gave to the supplier. That process should end by Wednesday and thereafter we will know how many (kits) we are accepting out of the 2 600 that have been supplied. After that we will start transporting them to the provinces and from then onwards we should be able to launch. Of importance is that we want our voter educators to go ahead of the blitz. They should be on the ground for at least one week before the blitz.</blockquote>
More: <a href="http://www.herald.co.zw/zec-receives-2-600-bvr-kits-readies-for-blitz/">Herald</a>

ZEC receives remaining 2 600 BVR kits

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said that it will be using Vaseline at biometric voter registration (BVR) centres after receiving complaints that the BVR kits were having problems reading some people’s fingerprints.
Zec commissioner Joyce Kazembe told reporters:
<blockquote>To say why are machines not reading other finger prints, yes we know that can happen, even at the police station, taking finger prints can be a problem…and now that we know it can happen, tichapota tichiisa (we shall apply) Vaseline.</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2017/09/28/zec-gets-vaseline-for-unreadable-voter-fingerprints">Daily News</a>

ZEC to use Vaseline for unreadable fingerprints at biometric voter registration (BVR) machines

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has claimed that the central servers where all the data from the biometric voter registration (BVR) process will be stored is hack-proof. The commission also said that the data will be stored in tamper-proof flash drives temporarily before the data is transferred to the servers.
ZEC Commissioner Qhubani Moyo said:
<blockquote>(First) the information is collected from the field and it saved into tamper-proof flash drives. The machines themselves are embedded with USB storage as backup storage.
All the information will be consolidated into one server which is located at Zec offices (in Harare).
At this server, we will use the Central Automated Finger Identification System (AFIS) which will weed out people who have registered more than once, to leave us with a clean voters’ roll. The clean data will be stored in the final server at our head office.</blockquote>
This comes after sections of the media raised concerns that the data could be compromised by hackers as ZEC had contracted a third party company to provide the central server. Laxton Group Limited which is supplying the BVR kits also raised the same concern saying:
<blockquote>This is a highly alarming risk. Zec does not appear to have this infrastructure in place and when Laxton raised this issue, it fell on deaf ears.
It was also made clear that Zec intends using an alternative company to provide the central system, which was even more alarming.
If issues arise, it is virtually impossible to know who is accountable. With multiple parties handling the system, then who is responsible if an issue arises? It will make it too easy to point fingers at each other.</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2017/09/27/bvr-computer-system-tamper-proof-zec">Daily News</a>

Our BVR System Cannot Be Hacked: ZEC

Speaking at a media training workshop in Darwendale, organised by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in conjunction with the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa, ZEC acting director for voter registration, Mr Collins Munetsi said there is no need for people to crowd Harare’s district centre to register as more centres will be availed soon.
Said Munetsi:
<blockquote>The Biometric Voter Registration will come closer to the people. There is no need for people to crowd Remembrance (in Harare) for registration. People should not crowd district offices as the blitz will come and serve them. We will have centres opened in every ward. People have no reason for incurring expenses travelling to districts. The centres will be published. We will have 2 600 (BVR) kits coming in October, but they may come earlier than this. The blitz will come and serve them. The blitz will take two and half months.</blockquote>
More: <a href="http://www.herald.co.zw/zec-calls-for-patience/">Herald</a>

'There is no need for people to crowd district centres for registration': ZEC

<blockquote>ZEC must up their game in the BVR system
The biometric voter registration (BVR) system was rolled out throughout Zimbabwe’s 63 district centres a few days ago but so far, the process has been painstakingly slow and thoroughly inefficient.
For instance, at Remembrance Drive district offices in Mbare, Harare, hundreds of aspiring voters had turned up as early as 6am on Wednesday morning, September 20, 2017. However, by mid-day, less than 50 people had been able to register as voters.
The MDC calls upon ZEC to urgently and immediately up their game if the BVR system is to be a success. Only one BVR machine is being used at each and every registration centre and of course, this has caused unnecessary delays in the voter registration exercise. ZEC has a constitutional obligation to undertake a credible, efficient and transparent voter registration exercise but so far, the situation on the ground leaves a lot to be desired. We demand more seriousness and focus on the part of ZEC.
As Zimbabwe’s largest and most popular political party, the MDC, through its various agents who have been deployed on the ground nationwide, has noticed that ZEC is not entirely ready to roll out a massive BVR system. We, therefore, demand that the remaining 2600 BVR kits that are still to be delivered to ZEC by Laxton Group Limited be shipped to Zimbabwe as a matter of extreme urgency.
In addition, the MDC also demands full details, chapter and verse, of the company that is supplying the central computer system that is being used for the BVR system. This information is essential in order to give credibility to the whole BVR system. ZEC has to come out clearly and unambiguously and advise the nation about the source of the central computer system and also how this system is going to be operated.
We have also noticed the uncalled for use of the ZRP anti – riot Police officers, especially at Remembrance Drive district offices in Mbare, Harare. The mere sight of ZRP anti – riot Police officers at a voter registration centre is very intimidating and frightening. Zimbabweans should be left to peacefully register to vote in a conducive and non – intimidating environment. Thus, Police presence should only be reasonable in order to maintain peace and tranquillity.
ZEC should openly admit that so far, the BVR system, particularly in urban areas, has been nothing short of shambolic. Be that as it may, the MDC would like to call upon Zimbabweans to be patient and to turn out in their millions to register to vote. The Zanu PF regime sustains itself on voter apathy and voter intimidation.
All eligible Zimbabweans should register to vote and make sure that on polling day next year, the rabidly corrupt and fascist Zanu PF dictatorship is booted out of power permanently. The toiling and suffering masses of Zimbabwe deserve to be led by a legitimate, people – centred, democratic, efficient, competent and accountable government.</blockquote>

MDC-T says ZEC biometric voter registration (BVR) process has been painstakingly slow and thoroughly inefficient

On Thursday, High Court judge Justice Davison Moses Foroma dismissed an urgent application by the MDC-T saying that the matter was not urgent and should be struck off the roll. The MDC-t was challenging President Mugabe’s proclamation of biometric voter registration dates. The MDC-T wanted the Biometric Voter Registration programme which was started by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to be suspended as it argues that ZEC is not adequately prepared.
On Monday, Justice Foroma deferred the hearing after Mugabe’s lawyers claimed that they were not advised of the challenge and needed time to respond.
MDC-T Secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora confirmed the matter saying:
<blockquote>The judge said the matter cannot proceed as an urgent chamber application but as an urgent court application.
Our reading of the decision is that maybe the judge does not want this important matter to be heard behind closed doors but in an open court.
If we want to pursue the matter it will be in open court and we have instructed our lawyers to actually pursue the matter and file an urgent court application.</blockquote>
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