addition of 230 voters who had been registered on a BVR registration kit in Chegutu, Mashonaland West province, prior to the cut-off date for the 2018 general election but had not been uploaded into the database. 45.3. The Electoral Commission made no announcement with respect to the final voter turnout when results for the House of Assembly elections were announced. The statement made relating to voter turnout was a statement I made on television after the close of the polls on the 30th of July 2018 in which I advised that as at 18:00hrs we had received voter turnout figures from four out of the ten provinces in Zimbabwe namely Masvingo, Bulawayo, Midlands and Harare. Note that for those four provinces that had reported, polls were still open as at 18:00hrs. 45.4. I advised in that statement that the average turnout, from the statistics made available as at 18:00 from the four provinces that had reported, was 75%. I further advised in that statement that we were still to receive statistics from Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, Matebeleland North, Manicaland and Matebeland South provinces. I attach a copy of the statement hereto marked Annexure ‘U’. 45.5. The final voter turnout in the presidential election was 85.1% which, when applied to the total voter population, equates to 4 847 233. The results announced by the Electoral Commission for the presidential election totalled 4 847 996, a variance of 763 votes with the actual 85.1%, which variance is accounted for by some errors in data capture, (which I will address further down