Voter Registration teams fail to turn up in Mashonaland East

The mobile voter registration exercise entered its second day Tuesday with officials from the Registrar General’s Office and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) failing to turn up at several centers in most parts of Mashonaland East province.

The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formation of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says this is a deliberate ploy to block supporters in its strongholds from registering as voters.

Several residents of Marondera East said they have not been able to register or inspect the voters’ roll because officers from the RG’s Office and the ZEC were not present all day at most designated centers.

One of those affected is former Zanu PF Deputy Minister of Labor Tracy Mutinhiri, who now wants to contest for a parliamentary seat in Marondera East under the MDC formation of Mr. Tsvangirai.

Mutinhiri suspects there is politicking in the on-going mobile voter registration exercise.

MDC-T spokesman Douglas Mwonzora maintains Zanu-PF has a plan to disenfranchise his party’s supporters ahead of elections expected to be called sometime this year.

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