The by-elections will be held in Chirumanzu-Zibagwe and Mount Darwin West that were held by Emmerson Mnangagwa and Joice Mujuru, respectively.
President Robert Mugabe proclaimed the two seats vacant and decreed the replacement polls since both Mnangagwa and Mujuru, after becoming vice presidents, must relinquish the constituencies.
Between January 26 and February 10, ZEC conducted a pilot voter inspection and registration exercise that produced the constituency-specific voters’ roll.
ZEC chair, Rita Makarau, appearing before the parliamentary committee on justice, legal and parliamentary affairs on Tuesday, said they hoped to duplicate the pilot results nationally and produce a comprehensive roll.
“We have done the voter registration exercise ourselves, we are analysing the data. We will come up with our own voters roll in whatever state it will be for these two by-elections and let all of you be the judges of whether we are doing a better job or not.
“We have started off with a pilot project for these tow constituencies and the by-elections. It is our hope that once we have gotten it right in the two constituencies, then we will roll out a nationwide programme to register voters throughout the country,” said Makarau.
She promised to avail the mini voters’ registers to the public in “whatever form”.
In the 2013 general elections, opposition political parties were denied access to the electronic roll.
Recently, ZEC turned MDC-T’s request to have the electronic roll, insisting that it had not started compiling a new register.
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