V. ZEC must be truly independent, professional and transparent. The lack of transparency contributed to the mistrust between ZEC, political parties and all stakeholders. VI. The parliament of Zimbabwe must carry out comprehensive electoral reforms. The first priority being the alignment of the Electoral Act with the Constitution so that all Zimbabweans enjoy their political rights in particular the right to vote. VII. ZEC must also ensure that for future elections the voter roll is updated and available on time for all electoral purposes. VIII. ZEC must ensure transparency in the printing and designing of ballot papers by all stakeholders. Recommendations to political parties III. Political parties must educate their supporters on the effects of political violence and also to urge their supporters to desist from electoral mal practices such as vote buying, defacing of posters hate speech and cyber bulling among other human rights violations. IV. Political parties must deploy polling agencies at all polling stations and these polling agents must observe all the processes at the respective polling stations. This is so as to enhance transparency. Recommendations to Parliament II. Parliament must priorities the alignment of all electoral related laws with the Constitution. Conclusion While the Forum appreciates that the pre- electoral environment was relatively peaceful save for a spike in cases of covert human rights violations. The post-election violence was not a surprise to the Forum at all as the NTJWG had predicted “The 2018 elections are set to be another addition on Zimbabwe's long litany of contested elections which are the major source of the many problems that have bedevilled Zimbabwe for the past 51