V. ZEC and civic society should continue to provide civic and voter education in between elections in order to reduce numbers of turned away voters and urge youth participation as candidates. Continuous voter and civic education will eradicate instances of voters being turned away for trivial reasons such as invalid IDs, wrong polling stations or constituencies amongst others. VI. Political parties, ZEC and civic society should conduct targeted voter mobilisation to enhance youth participation as voters and candidates in electoral processes. VII. There is need to put in place mechanisms to reduce instances of assisted voters and put administrative reform measures to help improve people with disabilities and assisted voters’ access to a secret ballot. VIII. There is need for ZEC to post V11 forms on its website as recommended by various election observer missions of the July 30 Harmonized polls to improve transparency in results management. IX. In addition, ZESN urges political parties to field female candidates and youths as contestants in elections to ensure that there is equal gender and youths’ representation in leadership positions. X. There is need for Organisations working with the youths and People with disabilities to continue lobbying them to participate in key political and electoral processes. XI. ZESN calls upon the Parliament of Zimbabwe to implement wholesome reforms to the Electoral Act with the Constitution to factor in recommendations by election observers to the 30 July 2018 Harmonised elections. XII. ZESN urges all key electoral stakeholders including ZEC and political parties to implement the July 2018 observer recommendations during the by-elections. 25

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