7. ELECTION DAY OBSERVATIONS The polling day was generally peaceful with no incidents of violence or altercations that were reported or observed by ZESN. Of concern is the low turn-out that marred the byelection and the continued use of two voters’ rolls, the anomalies that were unearthed by the Commission during the de-duplication exercise, and excessive printing of ballot papers by ZEC amongst other issues highlighted below; Voters’ roll ZESN observed the continued use of the two voters’ rolls by the Commission. This has become a trend in all the by-elections that ZESN has observed post 2013 harmonized. Of concern in Chiwundura by-election are the reports of anomalies that were discovered by the Commission during the de-duplication exercise and audit of the Chiwundura voters’ roll. ZEC informed the ZESN mobile observer team of the existence of national identification documents (IDs) with almost indicial details. For instance some IDs had the same name and surname, date and place of birth but with different identification numbers and photos on their national identification documents. Consequently the de-duplication software flagged such anomalies. ZESN therefore calls upon the Registrar General and the ZEC to provide clarity on the reported anomalies This clarity will enhance stakeholder confidence in electoral processes and allay fears that have been raised by other stakeholders with regards to possible double registration or electoral malpractices particularly in view of the impending Bio-metric Voter Registration (BVR) process. ZESN urges the ZEC to discard the 2013 voters’ roll and prepare a new voters roll for the 2018 Harmonized elections which complies with international principles of voter registration. 18 | P a g e