Our correspondent said villagers were being told to go other villages far away to vote and people from those villages were being brought in to vote in their village while many did not appear on the voters’ roll in their own wards even though they had registration slips.
A candidate in the election in Uzumba said when they arrived in the other village to vote, voters were being told that they don't know how to vote and need assistance, then they would be "assisted" even if they were capable of reading the ballot for themselves.
Paul Kazingizi said, it was better to stop the charade as there was no election going on. It was all cheating, he said.
Meanwhile, the MDC reports that it has received information from Mashonaland Central that at Gatsu Command Centre in Centenary, 56 presidential ballot books from Muzarabani North were distributed in the wards of Muzarabani South.
One of the official Muzarabani South books for the presidential election does not have serial number for the 15th leaf, as such it has been removed from the list. Each book has a hundred ballot papers. Further, of the 92 officers who voted as special voters, only 73 are indicated on the voters' roll.
“The MDC knows that in the face of rigging, the people of Zimbabwe will turn out and vote overwhelmingly in favour of the MDC making rigging not just difficult, but impossible,” said a party spokesperson.
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