Accessibility of Inspection Centres to Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) 18% of ICs visited were not easily accessible for the elderly or persons with disabilities, often with steps and no ramp. Accessibility was more of an issue in large centres housing a number of polling stations, it is critical for the ZEC to ensure that ramps are made available at such centres for Election Day to facilitate easy access for Persons With Disabilities and the elderly. For instance, there were steps to the room in Ruvimbo primary school, Mbizo, Ward 5, Midlands, (IC 4301MAMI003) and Godfrey Huggins primary school Marondera Central , Ward 10, Mashonaland East. The IC in Joel sub office, Zhombe Ward 13 Midlands province was on the first floor so inaccessible to the elderly or people using a wheelchair. Accessibility of Inspection Centres 18% 82% Accessible Not Accessible Observers reported that at 92% of the ICs, the environment was very peaceful. Similarly, interference with the inspection process was witnessed in only 32 occasions, or 3.5% of the time. Security forces were neither visibly present nor interfering with the inspection process. Environment at the Inspection Centre 6 61 828 Very Peaceful Fairly Peaceful Neither peaceful or tense Some tensions or disrruptions 7