ZESN’s previous update included reports of registration centres, countrywide, that ran out of critical materials including print rolls for voter registration slips. Observer reports over the last 7 days indicate that this issue has been addressed by ZEC. At centres that had run out of print rolls during the previous week, ZEC officials were contacting registrants to collect their registration slips. ZESN observers witnessed the collection of the registration slips by registrants who had been unable to collect upon registration at DDF Donga in Ward 10 Shurugwi South. However, at Mupawose Primary in ward 1 Sanyati and at Venice Secondary school ward 13 Muzveve voter registration slips there were significant number of uncollected registration slips with a few individuals making efforts to collect them. Assigning of registrants to polling areas In addition, ZESN received a few reports of people being posted and assigned to different polling areas to those they reside in because their streets names and polling areas were not available on the voter registration kits. ZESN urges ZEC to rectify these anomalies during the voters’ roll inspection exercise to ensure that voters are not discouraged by being posted to polling areas far from their places of residence. Recommendations In light of the indication for extension of the voter registration exercise, the following recommendations could be adopted to improve the process: 1. In order to ensure that the BVR extension is inclusive and comprehensive in registering all eligible voters, ZEC should coordinate with the Registrar General to facilitate the issuing out of National Identification documents especially in farming areas where a lot of people were unable to register due to lack of IDs. 2. ZEC and all electoral stakeholders must comprehensively publicize the extension of the BVR exercise. 3. ZEC should timeously avail registration statistics for all provinces disaggregated by age, sex and geographical area to ensure that electoral stakeholders implement targeted and specific voter mobilisation and education for the BVR extension.