ZESN Report on the 31 July 2013 Harmonised Elections officer and 2 election officers assisted the voters. Mat South Gwanda Central Gwanda Town Council (3) Suspended voting since the local authority had run out of ballot papers since 14:34 to 8 pm when ballot papers arrived. Voting stopped at 9 pm after voters stopped coming to the polling station. Midlands Mberengwa North Mberengwa RDC (35) Ballot papers finished. Roughly 200 people had voted and there are roughly about 300 still waiting to vote. Midlands Silobela Midlands Chirumanzu Takawira RDC (3) An assistant who wanted to assist two voters was only allowed to assist one of the voters and the other was assisted by the presiding officer. Midlands Mberengwa North Mberengwa RDC (12) Police are assisting the illiterate that are seeking the assistance. Some voters are bringing party cards (ZANU PF) but these are being refused to vote using the cards. Presiding officer allowed a young man to vote whilst he had a registration slip but without proper identification. Some people are being turned away because their national ID's are not clearly showing their pictures. These voters complained that when they registered to vote at the Registry they used the same national id cards. Midlands Gokwe-Kabuyuni Gokwe North RDC (3) Ballot papers without serial numbers observed. However they were not counted and were put aside. Midlands Chirumanzu-Zibagwe Takawira RDC (11) The elderly that cannot write and did not bring someone to assist them were being assisted by the presiding officer and policeman. Midlands Redcliff Redcliff Municipality (3) A councillor candidate was not on the voters roll and he went to verify at the command centre (Redcliff) and he was later allowed to vote because the command centre noted that he had been allocated a wrong ward. Midlands Zvishavane-Ngezi Zvishavane Town Council (2) The observer noted that the tent wall/flap had dropped behind the ballot booth such that there was no secrecy for voters 87 | P a g e