ZIMBABWE ELECTION SUPPORT NETWORK involves randomly identifying individuals from across the country on the 2018 FVR and then deploying enumerators to locate the sampled individuals and verify their registration information; and a people-to-list test in which enumerators randomly select individuals from across the country and request their registration information and then compare this to what is in the 2018 FVR. From the field tests ZESN notes that there is a high level of consistency in entering data of registrants on the voters' roll. ZESN could not locate 8.3% of respondents, who were unknown at address given in the voters' roll. roll contains inaccuracies, more could have been done to clean the 2018 FVR. ZESN's computer audit found that while registration rates for urban and young voters on the 2018 FVR have increased significantly from the 2013 PVR, concerns remain about under registration in urban areas and with younger voters relative to registration rates for rural and older voters. While the ZEC allocated additional BVR kits to rural areas that lead to high registration rates for rural and older voters, the ZEC did not, despite requests, make similar efforts to ensure higher registration rates for urban and young voters. This disparity undermines the inclusiveness of the elections. The findings of these audits provide an overall assessment of the 2018 FVR. Overall, ZESN's audit found that the 2018 FVR is an improvement over the 2013 PVR, but that challenges remain. ZESN's computer audit found a wide variety of mistakes in the 2018 PVR and 2018 FVR. While every voters' However, registration rates for urban areas and younger registrants continue to lag behind those of rural areas and older registrants in both the 2018 FVR and 2018 PVR – though not as much as in the 2013 PVR. 8 FINAL REPORT OF THE 2018 VOTERS' ROLL AUDIT

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