1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY President Mugabe set 15 July 2017 as the date for the Chiwundura National Assembly byelection in accordance with Section 39 (2) of the Electoral Act (Chapter 2:13). The seat fell vacant following the death of the National Assembly representative for the Constituency; Mr Kizito Chivamba, who died on 19 April 2017 following a short illness. Following the invitation of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), ZESN deployed 15 observers (static and mobile) to the 15 July 2017 National Assembly by-election. ZESN relied on reports from its volunteers who observed the pre-electoral period and the Election Day processes. ZESN was accredited by ZEC to conduct voter education for the by-election. The ZESN team of voter educators addressed gatherings in various wards, and also conducted door to door campaigns. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) conducted voter registration and inspection of the voter’s roll and at the end of the exercise 18,678 eligible voters 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 2017 exercise. The supplementary voters’ roll contained 25,010. ZESN continues to urge the ZEC to ensure that only one accurate and complete voters’ roll is compiled and used in by-elections and general elections. A range of anomalies in the voter register for the Chiwundura Constituency have been reported by the local media. These anomalies relate to the existence, in the register, of persons with national identity cards with identical names, surnames, date and places of birth, among other anomalies. These anomalies if not rectified will reappear on an even larger scale during the audit of the 2018 voters roll. 5|Page