Government of Zimbabwe has taken over the procurement of the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in a development that has will likely threaten the credibility of 2018 elections. Addressing journalists in Harare on Wednesday, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) Chairperson Rita Makarau
As the country gears up for the highly anticipated 2018 elections, there is no joy for Zimbabweans in the diaspora after Zimbabwe Electoral Commission says only a constitutional amendment will guarantee their right to vote. Addressing a media engagement in the capital on Wednesday, ZEC Chairperson
Preparations for the 2018 harmonized elections could be plunged into crisis due to under-funding of Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) by the treasury, electoral watchdog, Elections Resource Centre has said. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) submitted its budget proposal of over US$60 million to the Parliament of Zimbabwe
The Election Resource Centre (ERC) commends the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) for the clarity that it has set by coming up with a roadmap ahead of the 2018 Harmonized elections. The ZEC chairperson Justice Rita Makarau, through the state owned weekly Sunday Mail, briefly explained the
Harare- 21 January, 2017 - ZESN has deployed 33 static and mobile observers to the National Assembly by-election in Bikita West Constituency to measure compliance of the Election Day processes with the Constitution and Electoral Laws as well as regional and international standards. The political
Zimbabwe Election Support Network has called on government to avail funding to Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to conduct bio-metric polling station based voter registration ahead of the 2018 elections. Responding to a Sunday Mail story published on 15 January 2017 reporting that ZEC had acquired USD30 million for
In 2016, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) made a public announcement that they were considering the adoption of a Biometric Voter Registration system. It was further reported that the voter registration exercise would be piloted in March 2017 and rolled out in May 2017 for about
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) a non-partisan network of 34 member organisations is concerned by vote buying using food aid and farming inputs and the alleged intimidation of voters in Chimanimani West Constituency ahead of the Chimanimani National Assembly by-election. The by-election which was
Election Resource Centre has challenged Zimbabwe Election Commission to deal with all reported cases of politically motivated violence as a way of proving its capacity to manage credible elections Zimbabwe. This comes after ZEC failed to deal with politically motivated violence in the countless by-elections held
Local poll watchdog, Election Resource Centre (ERC), has lambasted the electoral management body, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), not to use weak laws as an excuse, but to act on irregularities which have a direct bearing on its constitutional mandate to ensure free, fair and
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