FIGURE 6:      Busing was noted in Mt Pleasant in Harare, where hundreds of youths who are not known to normally reside there disembarked from buses and voted.104 In Harare East, the MDC‐T vote was 122% of the 2008 figure, and ZANU PF’s increased to 320% of their 2008 figure – more than treble. However, MDC‐T narrowly retained the seat. In Bulawayo East, Coltart’s polling agents noticed a dramatic increase in ‘shaven headed youth’ all voting within the proximity of the army barracks, and massively bolstering the ZANU PF vote in this constituency compared to 2008.105 There have been allegations of people from Mozambique having pink fingers in the days after the Zimbabwe election, ostensibly because they crossed the border and voted in border constituencies at the request of ZANU PF functionaries.106 In Mazowe West and Shamva South, there was a dramatic loss in MDC‐T votes (‐42%) combined with an even more dramatic shift in ZANU PF vote (280% and 256% respectively). This meant that the MDC‐T win of 2008 was overturned in Mazowe West, with ZANU PF reclaiming this seat. Shamva South was once more returned to ZANU PF.                                                              104 Tendai Biti of MDC‐T was captured on video exposing the busing of youths into this constituency. 105 Southern Eye, “Soldiers fingered in vote‐rigging”, Bulawayo, 11 August 2013. 106 Chiripasi, T, “Tsvangirai MDC says Mozambicans voted in Zimbabwe polls”, Voice of America, 15 August 2013.   43

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