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.
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FINAL REPORT OF THE 2018 VOTERS' ROLL AUDIT