Commission except where their services are required for provision of security. b) Police officers will however not be allowed in polling stations. c) The law states that the voter’s rolls should be more accessible to the public and that ZEC shall provide copies of rolls at cost to candidates and political parties, in both print and electronic versions. d) ZEC is required to provide a sufficient number of conveniently situated polling stations and to allow input from political parties on their location. e) After counting of votes at polling stations, results to be displayed to candidates and agents and posted outside polling stations before being transmitted to constituency centre. NB: If you see any violations regarding any of the above during the period ahead of elections you need to raise it as an alert with the HZT offices. 3. WHY CITIZEN JOURNALISM AND COMMUNITY PROTECTION TRAINING The general trend with which the country behaves during the electoral period has been that characterized by organized attacks on pro-democracy forces, opposition players and civil society. a) What is NEWS? The definition of news is not commonly shared and attracts different meaning and interpretation at different stages, moments and period. However, for the purpose of this module and training, we shall adopt the Oxford Dictionary definition which defines news as: 6