55.6%. The province with the highest proportion of registered voters is Matabeleland North (83.1%), followed closely by Midlands (82.9%). Bulawayo (51.6%) and Harare (55.6%) are at the bottom of the ladder of residents registered to vote. 11.2 Possible Urban Voter Suppression The two Metropolitan Provinces, which are mostly urban, anchor the registration standings proportionally, amidst speculation that there could have been active urban voter suppression through the deployment of un-proportional registration centres and equipment. For instance, during the MopUp exercise, the Midlands province, despite being the third largest province by population after Harare and Manicaland, received the largest supply of Registration kits (69). Harare, which had close to 500,000 more eligible voters than the Midlands, received 59 kits and Manicaland only 48. 11 kits serviced Bulawayo (with an additional 6 provided on the 7th of February 2018), a quarter of the number of kits offered for the Midlands province, and less than half of the kits supplied to the next province (36) Matebeleland North. All other provinces had over 36 kits. This was despite ZESN observations that turnout of people wanting to register at district and sub-district centres was highest in Harare, Chitungwiza and Bulawayo. The anomalous distribution of kits witnessed during the Mop-Up Exercise proved to be a trend throughout the BVR Blitz exercise, which saw the Midlands being serviced by 353 kits during the BVR Blitz pre-Mop-Up, over a hundred more than Harare which had 248 Kits servicing it. The Midlands figures were over three times more than Bulawayo, which was serviced by 110 kits, the lowest of all the provinces. This was despite Bulawayo having higher numbers of eligible voters than at least two other provinces, Matebeleland North and Matebeleland South. For the Midlands, the favor was despite the Midlands having a smaller eligible voter contingent than at least two other provinces, Harare and Manicaland. Figure 8 ZEC Mop UP BVR Kits Deployments 48