Zec’s Voters’ Roll Has At Least 250 000 “Ghosts”

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is reported to have included over 250 000 ghost voters on the voters’ roll which it released. This has been alleged by BVR, electoral administration, human rights and data science experts who talked to NewsDay. The experts who spoke to NewsDay said,

One of the key concerns that have emerged is the existence of both double registrants and the high possibility of ghost voters in the roll. Both scenarios were, ordinarily, not expected given that the Electoral Commission used the most sophisticated BVR system to capture voters data. At the time of writing, the number of red-flagged entries basing on all techniques used stood at 250 000…The above scenario is a serious threat to (the) electoral process because the elections shall be polling-station based, and any person registered on two different polling stations will be able to vote twice.

However, Zec chairperson Priscilla Chigumba dismissed the allegations as fiction saying that the number of anomalies which was recorded was less than 1000. Said Chigumba,

The number of people who have been placed on the exclusion list is a couple of hundreds, it’s 800 or 900, I can’t exactly say from the top of my head, without being accused of being dishonest next week. There are some people who have similar names.

More: NewsDay

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