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
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