51.1. The applicant does not state where he derives the figure of 200 000 as the people who voted in Mashonaland Central province. The province has a total voter population of 531 984. With a voter turnout of 85.1% in the presidential election the number of votes cast in the province would exceed 400 000. The applicant’s averments in this respect are thus based on no evidence. 51.2. Reliance by the applicant on an online news story instead of seeking the actual election residue cannot assist in his case. The question that he poses i.e. did 400 000 plus voters cast their ballots in Mashonaland Central in the presidential election, is not answered by production of an online news story, it is answered in the ballot box, in the election residue, in the voters’ rolls that were used on polling day that are sealed in with the ballot papers. The applicant did not seek to access that election residue. 51.3. The question is also not answered by the affidavit of Gilbert Kabodora referred to by the applicant, which affidavit relates to events prior to the close of the polls and prior to counting of ballots. That affidavit presents no tally of votes. The deponent thereto does not aver that he conducted a tally of votes in Mashonaland Central that yielded total votes cast in the presidential election below 200 000. All he says is that at the few polling stations he visited, out of 973 polling stations in Mashonaland Central, he believes turnout was low. Compare this with the applicant’s readiness to state, albeit erroneously, 72% as the voter turnout in the presidential election in paragraph 6.4.5 of his founding affidavit.