Please be advised that if you have been turned away or you know someone who was turned away from registering to vote for whatever reason, *insist that the ZEC official fills in a VR 5 Form, stating the reason for denial*. The Election Resource Centre (ERC) will assist you. *Please ensure that the ERC gets access to your VR5 Form within 7 days whilst it is still relevant*.
You can contact the ERC and ZimRights Call Centre on *08080219* for further assistance.
Zanu PF has many, many ways of denying the people their freedoms and the basic human rights include the right to a meaningful vote; we have graphic evidence of this particularly in the 2008 elections. Everybody with any working grey stuff between their ears has said over and over again that we should implement the democratic reforms before holding the next elections.
“Please be advised that if you have been turned away or you know someone who was turned away from registering to vote for whatever reason, *insist that the ZEC official fills in a VR 5 Form, stating the reason for denial*. The Election Resource Centre (ERC) will assist you. *Please ensure that the ERC gets access to your VR5 Form within 7 days whilst it is still relevant,” ERC advised.
This is really sad! Instead of demanding the implementation of reforms and fix our skewed political system once and once for all we are again and again going for the prescriptive, Zanu PF dictate what we can and cannot do, but utterly useless solutions.
ERC’s solution is nothing more than the application of a band-aid to one with a broken leg. The stench coming from the leg is proof gangrene is setting in.
If organisations like ERC do not have the guts to confront Zanu PF and demand the implementation of the democratic reforms then they should just disband and shut up because they are mudding the political waters with their foolish suggestions!