9. ZEC must consider limited financial disincentives for stakeholders to participate in electoral process like high accreditation fees for observers and monitors. 10. ZEC must consider recruiting election officials not just from government departments and the civil service but also the highly literate and readily mobilisable and trainable community of students in tertiary institutions. 11. The ZEC should continuously provide updated, disaggregated data on the voter registrants on its website, in a timely manner. 12. ZEC must consider establishing more registration centres in large urban centres as Harare and Bulawayo for the continuous registration exercise to increase the numbers of registered voters as the data indicates the lowest registration turnouts in these provinces. 13. There is need for the ZEC and CSOs to amplify its voter education efforts particularly in Harare and Bulawayo since these provinces have the lowest proportions of registered voters. 14. There is need to increase mobilization efforts targeting groups that have, so far, recorded low voter registration. These include the newly turned 18 (18-19), men and those aged 50 and above. 15. Civil Society must complement ZECs efforts in the mobilization of potential registrants in the continuous BVR exercises ongoing at ZEC district offices. 16. ZEC must increase polling stations in constituencies with higher numbers of registered voters’ to ensure that voters’ are not disenfranchised on Election Day. OTHER STAKEHOLDERS 1. Government and political parties must allow ZEC to operate independently and impartially without undue political interference. 2. The Government must avail adequate resources to the ZEC for the completion of other voter registration processes such as deduplication, inspection, final cleaning of the voters roll as well as its certification among other essential electoral processes. 3. National and Community leaders like traditional chiefs and other local authorities must desist from interfering with the integrity of electoral process through coercion, misinformation and harassment of the electorate. 4. Political parties must ensure the prevalence of a conducive electoral environment through desisting from and encouraging their supporters not to engage in political violence, intimidation and harassment of the electorate. 5. Civil Society must enhance the quality and execution of their voter education and mobilisation activities to be inclusive especially of traditionally marginalised groups like women, youth and people living with disabilities. 6. Constitutional commissions with roles in electoral processes must act timely to investigate and stem electoral corruption, violence and intimidation. 7. Police must conduct their constitutional roles and roles in electoral processes professionally and without favour, including stemming impunity on political violence, intimidation and harassment. 59

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