Annex 2 CRITICAL INCIDENTS LOG – PHASE 1 TO PHASE 4 2017 Biometric Voter Registration Exercise DATE INCIDENT CONSTITUENCY WARD Action Taken Epworth Issue was reported to the office of the Secretary to the Commission and the Epworth District Election Officer was asked to intervene. TYPE 12/10/2017 A ZESN observer was hindered from entering the voter registration centre, by ZEC officials, therefore the observer spent the day observing the registration process from a distance. 2 ZLHR was also informed of this incident and they submitted a formal complaint to ZEC. 13/10/17 ZEC registration officials refused Gokwe Central to give ZESN Observer daily statistics of those who registered at the centre. This is despite ZEC’s repeated assurances that such statistics would availed to all observers. 15 The issue was brought before the attention of the Commission through a letter which ZEC acknowledged and promised to remind their officers to share daily statistics with observers. 13/10/17 Registration temporarily stopped owing to the fact that the registration centre ran out of the voter registration forms in the morning. Registration resumed in the afternoon when the centre received additional forms. Hungwe Central 4 Report made to ZEC with a plea to ensure that adequate material is availed to all registration centres countrywide Mt Darwin North 3 An inquiry was made to the ZEC as to the expected time it would take to replace a malfunctioning kit. 13/10/2017 At Kapfudza Primary school the laptop malfunctioned in the afternoon. Registration resumed around 5 pm when a replacement arrived. 61