The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said that all political parties will be allowed to observe the printing of the ballot papers. The parties will also be allowed to have their experts to test the papers’ chemical composition. Speaking to NesDay, Zec Commissioner Qhubani Moyo said
As means of compromise and to minimise conflict that was arising, the commission has decided to invite political parties contesting the elections to come and observe the process of printing the ballot paper. They will be allowed to test the paper….Political parties will be allowed to use their experts in chromatography to see whether the paper allows for migration of a mark from candidate A to candidate B. We will run an exercise where we will give them (political parties) a paper and let them put an X on candidate A. The paper is going to be put in a place where it will be guarded for 12 hours and we want to see whether the following day the X would have migrated.
MDC Alliance spokesperson Welshman Ncube said,
We need to ensure that we have agents at the printing process, throughout the process because allowing us to inspect the ballot papers being printed as a one-off issue is not enough. We must be there when they distribute the same so that we are sure if what we are seeing is what will be used on election day. Zec is not doing us a favour at all, but it is what is required to avoid mistrust.
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Be careful with Mdc demand what security control mechanism have you got to stop them from rigging themselves ? You better put one in place just because they are pointing a finger torwards ZANU does not mean they are,upright
Transparency at its best thnk you for the move towards an overally secure transparent and accountable system
.Chigumba is ZANU PF , now they say Chigumba’s photo wearing Mnangagwa Scarf is photoshop…photoshop kuita sei…these people somehow takes us for fools..even the ballot paper it’s real, not everyone in the system is ZANU PF therefore they are doing a great job sharing with us the shamanigans being plotted by these Coup blood thirst thieves. We will not be hoodwinked into being part of a system which they have manipulated already. It’s shocking to here ZEC saying transparency, just like ZANU PF which indicates left but turning right.