Table 5: Match Rate between ZEC Presidential Results by Polling Station and SBO Data for 750 Sampled Polling Stations by Candidate plus Rejected Ballot Papers and Unaccounted for Ballot Papers. Candidates Exact Match Rejected Votes 90.5% Unaccounted for Ballot Papers 96.4% Total 96.8% For 503 (67.1%) sampled polling station the results for all 23 presidential candidates plus rejected ballot papers and unaccounted for ballot papers all match between the SBO data and the ZEC Presidential Results by Polling Station. For 145 (19.3%) sampled polling stations the difference is less than 1% of the total vote while for 78 (10.4%) the difference is between 1% and 5%. For only 24 (3.2%) of polling stations is the difference more than 5%. The match rate by province ranged from a low of 95.2% for Mashonaland Central to a high of 97.6% for Bulawayo and Manicaland. Table 6: Match Rate between ZEC Presidential Results by Polling Station and SBO Data by Province for 750 Sampled Polling Stations Province Exact Match Bulawayo 97.6% Harare 97.3% Manicaland 97.6% Mashonaland Central 95.2% Mashonaland East 96.3% Mashonaland West 97.8% Masvingo 96.0% Matabeleland North 95.7% Matabeleland South 97.0% Midlands 97.5% Total 96.8% For the 750 sampled polling stations the SBO total vote for Chamisa was 146,426 while for the ZEC Presidential Results by Polling Station it was 146,650 a difference of only 236 votes or less than one vote per polling station. Similarly for Mnangagwa, the SBO total vote for the 750 sampled polling stations was 162,359 while the total for the ZEC Presidential Results by Polling Station was 162,587 a difference of only 208 again less than one vote per polling station. Overall, the SBO total votes for all 23 candidates plus rejected ballot papers and unaccounted for ballot papers for the 750 sampled polling stations was 324,768 while for the ZEC Presidential Results by Polling Station the total was 325,353 a difference of 591 less than one vote per polling station. The difference in rejected ballot papers between the SBO data and the ZEC Presidential Results by Polling Station for the 750 sampled polling stations was 282 (6.1%) again less than one rejected ballot paper per polling station. There was a significant difference in the number of unaccounted for ballot papers – only 5 for the ZEC Presidential Results by Polling Stations, but 115 for the SBO data for the 750 sampled polling stations. This is most due, however, to two SBO Observers who reported large numbers of unaccounted for ballot papers who most likely included unused ballot papers in this category. 8