72% of the total voter population for Mashonaland Central province is 383 028 already above the 200 000-figure presented by the applicant. 51.4. The applicant’s averments are bald and unsubstantiated. They cannot ground any challenge to the outcome of the presidential election. 52. Ad Para 6.5.7 This is denied. 52.1. The Electoral Commission put in place measures to allow civil servants seconded to the Electoral Commission during the elections to cast their votes. I attach hereto, marked Annexure ‘W’ a letter addressed to the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe in which the Chief Elections Officer advises the leadership of that organisation of the measures put in place by the Electoral Commission to ensure that civil servants voted on polling day. These included posting them as close to their polling stations as reasonably possible; providing them with transport on polling day to go and cast their votes and return to their duties; ensuring that all polling stations had enough manpower to allow the polling officers to take turns going to their respective polling stations to cast their votes and ensuring that at every polling station any election official that wanted to cast his/her vote would not have to stand in the voting queue in order for them to speedily vote and return to his/her duties.

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