ZESN - Promoting Democratic Elections in Zimbabwe
Recommendation
Purpose
Targeted Institutions
2. Voter Registration and Voters' roll
2.1
Amend the electoral law to instruct the ZEC
to inform registrants who are removed from
the roll.
To fully align electoral laws with the
Constitution
Parliament of Zimbabwe,
The Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission
2.2
Notify persons that are put on the exclusion
list and provide a less cumbersome
provisions for redress.
To provide effective remedy to the
category of voters who are put on
the exclusion list.
Parliament of Zimbabwe,
The Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission
2.3
Amend the electoral law to ensure that it
provides a specific timeframe for the final
voters' roll to be availed to the political
contestants.
To enhance transparency in
electoral processes. To ensure that
the voters' roll is given to political
parties before the sitting of the
nomination court.
Parliament of Zimbabwe,
The Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission
2.4
Facilitate ease of registration in urban areas
in view of lowest registration statistics in
Harare and Bulawayo in particular and
urban areas in general compared to rural
areas.
To make registration rates in urban
areas more consistent with official
population projections.
The Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission
2.5
Provide copies of the polling station voters'
roll to party agents at the polling stations.
To enhance transparency in
electoral process.
The Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission
2.6
Invest in procurement of integrated systems
that allow for one gadget to be used for
multiple purposes such as enrolling voters,
voter verification on election day and
transmission of results.
To enhance the efficiency of voter
registration and results transmission
processes.
The Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission
2.7
The results of the de-duplication process
need to be publicized.
To enhance transparency in the
process of the compilation of the
voters' roll.
The Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission
2.8
ZEC to focus on continuous voter
registration and cleaning of the voters' roll
To improve the effectiveness of the
voters' registration process and the
quality of the voters' roll.
Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission
Purpose
Targeted Institutions
To ensure that Electoral district
boundaries are drawn so that
districts are relatively equal in
population.
The Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission
Recommendation
3. Delimitation
3.1
There is need to rationalize constituencies
that are too big and those that are too small.
3.2
There should be stakeholder consultation on
delimitation and the process needs to
comply with international standards of
equal voting strength, representativeness,
and community of interest.
The Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission
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REPORT ON THE 30 JULY 2018 HARMONISED ELECTIONS
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