was made clear on the 14 July, 2015 when the deputy chairperson of the Commission said that if a voter presented themselves at a polling station and that person had not registered during the pilot registration period, ZEC would refer to the 2013 voters’ roll to check whether they were previously registered and direct that person, based on their address, to the specific polling station where that person should vote. ZESN commends the Commission for putting in place mechanisms to ensure that potential voters who did not participate in the pilot voter registration exercise were still able to vote if their name was in the 2013 voters roll. ZESN, however, reiterates its call for the Commission to ensure that, by the date of the by-election or general elections, voters’ roll to be used complies with accepted voter registration principles. ZESN urges the Commission to ensure that a single, consolidated, complete and accurate voters’ roll for each Constituency is available in reasonable time before the election date. 6.3 Analysis of the Marondera Central Voters’ Rolls ZESN noted the use of two voters’ rolls in the Marondera Central by-election i.e. the polling station based voters’ rolls and a supplementary roll based on the previous ward based voters’ rolls. The Main Register for Marondera Central had 18,624 registered voters of whom 10,858 voters were female representing 58.30% of the total number of voters and 7,766 males who are 41.70% of the total number or registered voters. The Supplementary register for Marondera Central however had 18,956 registered voters of whom 9,338 were female representing 49.26% of the total registered voters the remaining 9,618 voters are male who represent 50.74% of the total number of voters registered. Emerging issues from the two Voters’ Rolls ZESN noted that there are 7,554 unchanged records in the main voters’ roll and 19,334 records which were in the 2013 register and not in the main voters’ roll which can be attributed to out-migration, deceased voters or a general lack of interest in electoral processes. New registrants in the main voters’ roll which were not in the 2013 voters’ roll stand at 11,070. In the supplementary voters’ roll there are 19,229 voters who were in the 2013 voters’ roll and not in the Main polling station-based voters’ rolls. A comparison between the 2013 harmonised elections voters’ roll and the Merged (Main + Supplementary rolls) it is evident that there was an increase of registered voters from 31,340 in 2013 to 38,825 in 2015. There is a significant number of typographical errors, numerical data in names and invalid names in the voters’ rolls that ZESN analysed revealing that there wasn’t adequate quality control and validation process of the rolls. 7. ELECTION CAMPAIGNS The continued elections boycott by the MDC formations means that ZANU-PF was the only contesting party which is currently benefiting from funding for political parties from Treasury as provided for in Section 3 (3) of the Political Parties Finances Act[Chapter 2:11]. This contributed to the creation of an uneven playing field as other parties could not compete on an equal footing resulting in the by-elections being poorly contested as contesting parties were not able to mount effective election campaigns. 13 | P a g e