Polling Day Environment The 21st of July, 2017 was the polling day when the election was held. The electoral environment was generally peaceful and people went to cast their votes with minimum challenges. However, there were few incidences of human rights violations with intimidation recording 88% and forced attendance to a political meeting after voting recording 12%. Heal Zimbabwe visited 46 polling stations and within all the polling stations 2 cases of intimidation were noted within the 100 metre radius were polling agents and ZANU PF youth were writing down people's names after voting. Figure 5: Balloting Day Human Rights Violations Recorded in Bikita West (21 January 2017) As observed above, there were few cases of intimidation that were recorded on the polling day as opposed to the pre-election campaign period. This proves that the balloting day was peaceful and free from violence. However, the level of assisted voters raises concerns against the background that before the Election Day, Heal Zimbabwe recorded cases where people were told to declare themselves illiterate and be assisted by traditional leaders or ZANU PF members to vote against their will. 10