tremendously and there is much more suitable and much cheaper equipment available. Zimbabwe should in future take a cue from these current debates globally about using integrated approaches to ensure sustainability and cost effective use of ICTs in elections. Voters’ Roll Reports from CSOs indicated that in the previous elections, Kenya’s voters’ roll was one of the most contentious issues. In 2013, there was an outcry over the multiple voters’ rolls that the Commission used for the elections. This and other problems mentioned earlier forced Kenya to overhaul its voter registration process. For the just ended MVR processes which concluded on 14 February local observer groups in Kenya had reported cases of double registration in a number of centers that were visited. Deliberate double registration is an offence in Kenya. The IEBC, a week before the close of the MVR, published a report which indicated that there were 78,752 cases of double registration, 21,149 of them were cases where individuals shared the same ID numbers and names. Civic society organisations in Kenya are demanding a continuous appraisal of how the issue was being dealt in order to enhance public confidence in the process. In addition the Commission established an online platform where voters could easily check for their names. This innovation made enhanced the ease with which voters could inspect the voters’ roll. This is one area that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), should seriously consider implementing given the high levels of mobile technology penetration in Zimbabwe. Apathy in process The Commission had targeted to register an additional 6 million voters from the 15 million registered voters as of 2016, but from the statistics provided by the Commission a few days before end of the exercise indicated that there was a sense of apathy that gripped the country just as in the last exercises done in 2016. Of the targeted 6 million potential voters during the MVR, by the time our team left Kenya (a few days before the MVR exercises ended), the IECB had registered 2.1 million (35%) voters from 16 January 2017. Some stakeholders who spoke to us indicated that there was a general feeling in the populace that the value of the vote was not translating into tangible benefits for the country and the citizenry. The socio, economic environment was also noted as one factor that has contributed to the voter apathy. During the time the ZESN team was in Kenya, Lecturers at Kenya's public universities and doctors had gone for more than seven weeks on an indefinite strike over poor remuneration, deepening a crisis in public services as the country heads towards elections. Mass Voter Mobilization Apart from being a right that a citizen should enjoy and exercise, registering as a voter makes citizens eligible to participate in the process of electing leaders of their choice. Parallel to the MVR, the IEBC was 4|Page