The readiness of ZEC to execute elections is seriously questioned [Q61B]. Only 17% reckoned that ZEC is ready to conduct elections, whilst 11% said ZEC was not quite ready, and a further 13% averred that ZEC is not ready at all. The ‘don’t know’ category was substantial (19%). The balance of 41% was those who reported that they had not heard of ZEC. Zimbabweans are also sceptical as to whether ZEC in the next elections will act in fairness to all political parties [Q61D]. 31%, by far the biggest opinion block on the question, answered ‘no’ to the question of whether they have confidence that ZEC would treat all political parties equally in the next election. As in the previous question, bias towards ZANU-PF featured as the reason for this assessment – this time around the bias was virtually unanimously cited. 6.7 Voter registration A large majority of Zimbabweans are reported to be registered as voters – 82.7% according to this survey, whilst 17% report that they are not registered [Q60A]. Only 0.4% was not sure of their registration status. The detailed follow-up questions on registration issues had low numbers of responses, and only limited statistical analysis is thus possible. Of those who are registered, 57% reported that the registration process had been easy or very easy [Q60B]. They found the registration process to have been easy, largely because they had all the required documents, and because the process itself was ‘simple and fast’ [Q60C]. Only 6% thought that the registration process had been difficult or very difficult. Of those who are not registered, only 7% reported that they had tried to get registered, but had been unsuccessful [Q60E].17 The reason for lack of success appears to have been largely due to the absence of a national identity document. Other reasons that featured were no proof of residence, and non-citizen indication on the identity document [Q60F]. Of those who had no identity document, half reported that they had subsequently been able to get a replacement document [Q60G]. It appears from the trends reported that the vast majority of potential Zimbabwean voters are registered. Those who are not registered related little apparent political intervention with the registration process. The biggest reason for not being registered, appears to have been the bona fide loss of identity document – although the continuous prohibition of registration or ‘non-citizens’ featured as one of the (small) reasons for not being registered. 17 The trends reported in this paragraph are off an extremely small respondent base, and should be interpreted with care. 57