ZESN Report on the 31 July 2013 Harmonised Elections 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Alliance Kumbula Ekhaya- AKE CTD FCZ Free Zimbabwe Congress Independents Mavambo Kusile Dawn (MKD) Movement for Democratic Change – MDC-T Movement for Democratic Change (Ncube Faction) MDC-N People’s Democratic Union Freedom Front Progressive and Innovative Movement of Zimbabwe PIMZ United Movement for Democracy (UMD) Voice of the People (VP) ZANU-Ndonga Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) Zimbabwe Development Party Zimbabwe National African Union (Patriotic Front)-ZANU PF Zimbabwe People’s Movement (ZPM) Special voting ZEC made provision for civil servants and members of the disciplined forces who were due to be deployed on official duty on Election Day away from the wards where they are registered to vote. A special early voting exercise was conducted to allow them to do this. In the past members of the disciplined forces would vote in barracks and police or military precincts. This was known as postal voting, as the votes would then be posted to ZEC for processing. The process was not trusted because voting conditions were not compatible with the secrecy of the ballot and it was difficult to observe the transmission of the ballots and their processing. Therefore the Electoral Amendment Act of 2012 introduced new provisions for special voting in sections 81A-81H, which were supplemented by Statutory Instrument 84 of 2013. According to these provisions, ZEC was required to establish special voting stations for members of the disciplined forces for the purposes of conducting the special vote. These centres were not to be located at or near police stations or any premises occupied by security offices. At these stations, special voters would receive ballot envelopes containing ballot papers from the ward where they were registered and would vote and place these papers in the envelope for transmission to their ward for counting on 38 | P a g e