Zec Faces Another Lawsuit After Establishing Illegal Polling Station At Barracks

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The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (Zec) have threatened to sue the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission for setting up a polling station that is against the law. Zec was given until the end of business today (Tuesday) to rectify the issue or face legal action. An excerpt of the letter written to Zec reads,

In our pursuit to advance the rule of law, we have established that there is a polling station that has been set up at the Presidential Guard army barracks in Dzivarasekwa Extension, Dzivarasekwa constituency.

The polling station is identified as the Presidential Guard tent on the voters’ roll. After perusing the voters’ roll we have established that at least 1 635 voters have been registered to vote at the polling station.

Section 51 (1a) and (1b) of the Electoral Act provides that a polling station must be accessible to the public, including people with disabilities and that “no polling station shall be established at a police station, barrack, cantonment area or other place where police officers or members of the defence forces are permanently stationed”.

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24 comments on “Zec Faces Another Lawsuit After Establishing Illegal Polling Station At Barracks

  1. zec is doing its duty and i dont think that it is an impact for it to decide what is possible for the smooth peace operation of the electoral processes

  2. its clear that all opposition parties in line with the stake holders that hates ZANU PF would like to create a bad situation about the election yet we have the peace we want in election.

  3. zec is doing well but opposition is feeling nervous because its obvious the victory Zanu Pf is from the majority in zimbzbwe

  4. unotonzwa munhu achiti heee nyika ino hee chi chi kudii kwacho hamuni a great change this government

  5. hahahahaha chamisa is not sleeping. he is at work trying all he can to turn zec upside down and not focusing on then election itself

  6. victory is certain for ED. keep diverting your attention from the election chamisa and hand over the victory to Mnangagwa

  7. chamisa and biti are trying by all means to tarnish the image of zecso that people will lack trust in it yet it is doing the best out o

  8. this is the duty of the observers. why are you wasting time doing other people’s jobs? these people are being led by chamisa and tendai biti

  9. im enjoying ED’s silence in all these stories. he is a well refined, mature politician . i love my president

  10. it is chamisa and his friend’s will to distort the image of zec so that it will lose its capacity to work properly in order for them to archive what they want

  11. but this time around zec has improved a lot because no much hustles are affecting the electoral process i dont know what wrong now concerning the above issue

  12. these pipo know what theyre are doing so who are you to judge? dai maiziva stereki handiti dai muri part ye those pipo …

  13. ini hangu ndukungoti munhu ukanyarara haumbonzi wakapusa or wakafa…vanhu vanotya kudyiwa

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