ZESN Report on the 31 July 2013 Harmonised Elections of reporting at 10:10am, 25 people had already been turned away. Harare Glenview South Harare Municipality (32) A voter was given 3 ballot papers and only cast 2 (one for National Assembly and the other one for Local Authority). The polling officer asked him where the other ballot paper was and he said he was only given two. The presiding officer called the policeman, polling agents and observers. They searched him but did not find the paper so voting was stopped for 30 minutes. The voter said he would check in the booth and he came back with the ballot paper saying it was a spoiled paper. The presiding officer asked him why he was saying it was a spoiled paper now yet he had said he only got 2 ballot papers. So the voter was handcuffed and taken to Glenview Police Station. Harare Mt Pleasant Harare Municipality (17) 79 people were turned away as they had white paper registration slips. They have been told to go to ward 7, which is Mt Pleasant High School. When they got there they were not allowed to vote and they were now going in circles as their registration forms don't show their ward number but only their constituency. They informed ZESN observers that they had registered before the cut- off date. Harare Mt Pleasant Harare Municipality (17) One voter was turned away to vote at ward 7 from ward 17 yet he had a transfer slip that he has transferred from ward 7 to 17. Observer also noted the officials were not thorough in checking voters’ fingers as expected, resulting in some people leaving the polling station after voting without ink on their fingers. However the observer did not see anyone who has voted twice at that polling station. The MDC-T election agent also witnessed this. Harare Mbare Harare Municipality (4) At St. Peters Primary school people were turned away because they were not in the correct ward. About 37 people were turned away. However the situation was calm. Harare Mt Pleasant Harare Municipality (7) Observer from Strathaven complained that people stopped voting from 17:37 to 18:03 because the generator came late so people could not vote at that time. However the voting continued from 18:03. Harare Harare North Harare Municipality Six ballots missing. A list from the command center came with 18 names. It was said that the names needed to be cancelled 82 | P a g e

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