4. VOTERS TURNED AWAY There have been widespread allegations that the Registrar General’s office, working with Israeli company NIKUV, deliberately manipulated the voters’ roll to exclude/ remove/re‐ allocate voters from MDC‐T strongholds in order to undermine their total vote.93 Numbers turned away were given by ZEC as a global figure per province.94 These figures have been converted to percentage of votes cast per province. It is not possible to say much about how these figures compare statistically to previous elections, as reports for elections back to 2000 simply do not report the percentage of voters turned away. FIGURE 3: 1. Harare had more than double the number of voters turned away (15%) compared to the average across all provinces (7.4%). Harare had more than treble the number of voters turned away, compared to ZANU PF strongholds of Mashonaland East and Central (4.9%).                                                              93 Kwaramba, F, “Election rigging underway: PM. ‘Hired Israeli firm tampering with voters’ roll”, Daily News, Harare, 2 July 2013. Ndebele, H, “Israeli elections rigging machine exposed”, Zimbabwe Independent, Harare, 19‐25 July 2013. Mambo, E, “Israeli agents rig results”, Zimbabwe Independent, Harare, 2‐8 August 2013. Daily News, “Nikuv paid $10m to rig polls: MDC”, 10 August 2013. 94 See Appendix 4 for exact figures per province.   38