vote. At 95% of the stations where ZESN had observers, no one was allowed to vote without having their voting identification documents checked. At 41% of the polling stations where ZESN had observers, between one and five people were turned away and not allowed to vote. This was occasioned by cases such as lack of identification document and also the incidents where the voters turned up at the wrong polling stations. At 38% of polling stations where ZESN had observers, between six and 25 people were turned away while in 10%, more than 25 people were turned away. Figure 15.6 below shows the percentages of voters who were turned away. Figure 15.6: Voters who were turned away Mashonaland Central province recorded the highest number of stations (16%) that did not have any voters turned away while Bulawayo Metropolitan (24%) had most centres with people turned away. Matabeleland South Province (60%) had most of the centres with the least people turned away, while Bulawayo Metropolitan province had the highest number (52%) of polling stations where people were turned away. In only 6% of the polling stations where ZESN had observers, no one was assisted to vote while, in 3% of the polling stations, no woman was assisted to vote. In addition, 34% of the stations recorded between 1-5 people being assisted to vote. At 43% of the polling stations, some (between six and 25) people were assisted to vote while in 32% of the centres many were assisted. 83 | P a g e