and 3 - remote parts of the constituency where communities rely mostly on information passed by traditional leaders and ruling party. Voter education sessions were also done in ward 4, 5, and 8 at church meetings and community meetings points at which communities were waiting to receive farming inputs and food aid. In view of the just ended voter education outreach for the by-election, ZESN recommends that voter education should be done on a continuous basis. ZESN noted that ZEC had only allocated 7 days for the outreach which was very limited time. Accrediting more local stakeholders, especially the FBOs, will help complement ZEC voter education efforts. This will help counter misinformation and bias by some traditional leaders who were observed campaigning for the ruling party. It is also recommended that ZEC allocates more resources for IEC materials as some of the ZEC teams had limited and, in some cases, no materials. ZEC should also employ other methods of conducting voter education and not rely on door to door since it is time consuming and generally more expensive. ZESN reproduced and plastered ZEC CVE posters in Mutoko North 6.3. The Voters’ Roll Prior to the holding of the 30 July 2018 harmonised elections, ZEC rolled out the Bio-metric Voters’ Registration (BVR). This produced a new voters’ roll which contains biometric features of all registered voters. In the run up to the 24 November by-elections, ZESN conducted an audit of the Mutoko North voters’ roll to ascertain its accuracy, completeness 11

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