6 Delimitation To show that the voter registration exercise was rushed and poorly planned, there is a likelihood people registered under the current exercise would find themselves in new constituencies after the delimitation commission sets out to mark constituency boundaries. Currently, there is a bill in parliament that seeks to, among other things, increase the number of contested parliamentary constituency seats from the current 120 to 200. In actual fact, information reaching ZESN is that the marking of new constituency boundaries is now complete, before even the Delimitation Commission has been appointed. Constituency boundaries are being drawn, as has always been the case, to create district majorities that favour one party -- a cynical exercise designed to cheat other parties out of their fair share of seats. This is true when one looks at the Harare South constituency in 2005 where peri-urban and rural districts were incorporated into the new boundaries to dilute the Movement for Democratic Change urban vote. It is therefore pointless to talk of the composition of the Delimitation Commission nor the credibility of the commissioners who constitute it. The real work has already been done and what the Commission would do is to just rubber stamp. From the very beginning, where did the government get the 200 constituencies? What justification did it have for the increase and for goodness’ sake, how many people are registered to vote in the country? All this should be public information but in Zimbabwe, it is classified no wonder why there are suspicions this information is used to rig the election. Media The post referendum era saw the proliferation and closure of privately owned newspapers effectively stifling any democratic media space that one could dream of. Legislative pieces like the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) and the Broadcasting Services Act (BSA) made the operation of media organisations very difficult. AIPPA was used to close the Daily News, The Daily News on Sunday, The Tribune, The Weekly Times among other small publications that encountered viability problems due to the outlawing of foreign funding by the afore-mentioned Acts.