3.3. Voter Registration and inspection of the voters’ roll Effective voter registration is an important means of ensuring that the right to vote is protected. Voter registration is one of the means of promoting inclusive voting processes, while at the same time safeguarding against ineligible people. Section 155 (2) (a) provides for the government to take all measures and ensure that all eligible citizens, that is to say the citizens qualified under the Fourth Schedule, are registered as voters. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) conducted voter registration and inspection of the voter’s roll. At the end of the exercise 18,678 had registered. As has become the norm ZEC created a supplementary voters’ roll to accommodate that category of voters whose names were contained in the 2013 voters roll but were unable to register during the 2016 exercise. The supplementary voters’ roll contained 25,041. ZESN continues to urge the ZEC to ensure that only one accurate and complete voters’ roll is compiled and used in byelection and general elections. Chiwundura Voters Rolls main voters roll 43% supplimentary voters roll 57% Figure 1: Comparison of Chiwundura Voters rolls A cursory glance of the two rolls that were used by ZEC during the by-election reveals that a close to half of those who were eligible to cast their vote in the by-election were drawn from the supplementary voters’ roll. This demonstrates the need for enhanced voter education to 12 | P a g e