BY STAFF REPORTER
HARARE
Members of the Central Intelligence Organisation, soldiers and youth militia were installed in three bases in Harare to mark extra ballot papers and rig the elections, The Zimbabwean can reveal.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) had printed more than double the number of ballot papers for Saturday’s voting and failed to adequately explain the reason or account for the extras.
Top sources privy to a secret plan by the Zanu (PF) regime to save it from defeat by the main opposition confirmed findings from The Zimbabwean’s investigations.
Army barracks at KGV1, Cranborne and Manyame Airbase base in Harare were used by around 200 CIO officers, soldiers and green bombers, who started marking extra ballots last Friday.
Details of how the whole plan worked were gleaned from sources privy to the rigging strategy of Israeli spy agency Mossad, working in collaboration with CIO and ZEC officials.
The Zimbabwean visited KGV1 barracks in Harare on Monday and saw evidence of ballot papers having been at the army base. The authorities had accidentally left heaps of torn or spoiled ballot paper, which sources there, keen on exposing the scandal, showed to our reporter.
Torn ballots evidence of fraud
“The team that did the work came in secretly and was closely guarded after being selected from highly-trusted people,” revealed a source. “They were here from Friday and went all the way through Saturday and were given first-class treatment, getting top of the range food from a catering company.
“However after they finished their work on Saturday they left the torn and spoiled papers for clearance by cleaning staff. That must have been because of confidence that everyone here is in correct political line.”
Efforts to obtain comment from army spokespeople were to no avail.
The Zimbabwean also heard from sources based at Cranborne army barracks and
Manyame Air Base that the same exercise was done there.
“It was a very secret plan known only to top leaders even here,” a senior official at
Manyame said.
The Zimbabwean further heard that after the extra ballots were secretly marked, various means were used to ferry them to what our sources close to the Mossad strategy described as “areas in need” – constituencies in remote places where systems had been put in place to enable the inclusion of the fraudulent ballots in the verification and counting processes.
“The areas that were deemed to have been successfully sorted to get the extra ballots included furthest remote areas such as Uzumba, Maramba, Mt Darwin and Mudzi,” a source said. In some of these areas, ZEC had barred polling agents for the opposition from gaining adequate access to observe goings-on during and after voting on Saturday. They also banned agents from observing the counting process so that the fraud could be carried out.
To substantiate this information, results that had been released by Monday afternoon from some of these constituencies showed the trend of massive margins of victory for Zanu (PF). For example, in Maramba Pfungwe the Zanu (PF) candidate was reported to have polled close to 14,000 votes against about 2,000 for the MDC candidate. In comparison, most constituencies elsewhere were reported to have had a turnout of around 10,000 voters.
ZEC Chairman George Chiweshe said: “No, that didn’t happen” before cutting off the phone when contacted for comment.
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