records from district, constituency and provincial levels into national voters’ roll
amongst others.
ZEC should consider provisions for the display of the provisional and final updated
voters’ rolls outside of registration centres and polling stations in the Regulations.
The Regulations should list persons allowed to be in the registration centres during
the registration centres e.g. voter registration officers, members of the Commission,
voter registration political party agents, duly accredited observers and media
practitioners.
5. Eligibility criteria
The Electoral Regulations should clearly specify the eligibility criteria for voters and
deal with issues of “aliens” and the right to vote.
The Regulation should unpack the Section 67 (3) of the Constitution which provides
for the right to vote by all eligible Zimbabweans.
Mechanisms should be provided for in the Regulations to ensure that prisoners,
those in hospitals especially hospital staff, nurses and doctors and others who will be
on duty on election day exercise their right to vote. If Special Voting is to be
reinstated, the Electoral Regulation should specify how this is to be administered
given the challenges faced in 2013 harmonised elections.
The Regulations should specify how Postal voting will be administered and make
provision for the process to be open to observation by interested stakeholders.
6. Voters’ Roll Certification
The Regulations should stipulate all the features that should be captured in the
voters’ roll such as:
i. First name and two other names, if any, as recorded;
ii. gender;
iii. date of birth;
iv. Unique Voter Identification Number;
v. photograph;
vi. any other particulars as the Commission may determine.
There is need for provisions for the certification of the voters’ rolls at all levels e.g.
voter registration centre, ward, constituency, and district, provincial and national
(these levels can be determined by the Commission). This implies that at all levels the
responsible personnel e.g. voter registration coordinators shall certify such register
as the register of voters and deliver such copies to the next level until the final
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