ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ (7) Notwithstanding this section, where a claimant or voter has ceased to be a citizen of Zimbabwe and thereby ceases to be entitled to vote in terms of the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution, it shall not be necessary to send a notice of objection to a claimant or voter before rejecting his or her claim for registration or striking his or her name off the voters roll, as the case may be, if the voter registration officer— (a) publishes a notice of such striking-off in the Gazette or in a newspaper circulating in the area of the constituency concerned; and (b) gives written notice to the claimant or voter concerned that his or her claim for registration is incompetent or his or her name has been or is to be struck off the voters roll because he or she has ceased to be a citizen of Zimbabwe. [Subsection amended by s. 48 of Act No. 6 of 2014 and by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] 28 Objections by voters (1) A voter may object to the retention of any name on the voters roll of the constituency in which the objecting voter is registered, and to the removal of his or her name from the voters roll in terms of section 33(4). [Subsection as amended by section 25 of Act No. 17 of 2007] (2) An objection in terms of subsection (1) shall be— (a) in writing, setting forth the grounds of the objection; and (b) lodged in duplicate with the voter registration officer; and [Paragraph amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] (c) accompanied by the prescribed fee. (3) If an objection in terms of subsection (1) is lodged and— (a) the voter registration officer upholds the objection, he or she shall give written notice accordingly to— (i) the voter who has objected; and (ii) the person to whom the objection relates, where the effect of upholding the objection is to strike his or her name off the voters roll or to place it on another voters roll; and strike the name of the person to whom the objection relates off the voters roll or place it on another voters roll, as the case may be, within fourteen days of the date when the voter registration officer gives notice in accordance with this paragraph, unless, within that period— A. the voter who has objected submits to the voter registration officer a written notice to the effect that he or she wishes the objection to be heard (notwithstanding that the objection is upheld); or B. the person to whom the objection relates submits to the voter registration officer a written notice to the effect that he or she wishes the objection to be heard; in which event paragraph (b) shall apply as if the voter registration officer did not uphold the objection; [Paragraph amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] (b) the voter registration officer does not uphold the objection, he or she shall (after affording the objector an opportunity to withdraw the objection in any case where it was based on an obvious error or misunderstanding on the part of the objector)— [Paragraph amended by section 37 of Act No. 6 of 2018] (i) forthwith set down the objection for hearing before a designated magistrate of the province in which the person to whom the objection relates resides; and 39