Parliamentary watchdog Billwatch has provided some details about Zimbabwe's elections, to remind people of the key points.

Kisinot Mukwazhe of the Zimbabwe Development Party has withdrawn from the presidential election. He says he will now be supporting President Mugabe. That leaves four presidential candidates, Dabengwa of ZAPU, Mugabe ZANU-PF, Ncube MDC and Tsvangirai MDC-T.

If the presidential results are too close to call, there will be a run off on 11th September. This precise date was specified in Mugabe's election proclamation, in accordance with the electoral act.

There are 9,735 polling stations across the country.

There are 20,000 local and foreign observers.

There are nearly 900 foreign journalists in the country, covering these elections.

The official announcement of results has to be made by the electoral commission. But there is nothing in the law that is against parties, organisations and individuals compiling results, as long as they don't claim they are official.

The official announcement of the Presidential election result has to be made by the ZEC chairperson, or in her absence the deputy chairperson or one of the other commissioners. The announcement must be made not later than 5th August, five days after polling, if there is an outright winner.

The person elected President must be sworn in within 48 hours.

Voters names not on roll

The Zimbabwe Solidarity Forum is reporting that they are receiving a number of reports that voters are not on the voting rolls where they were expected. This means they cannot vote in their constituencies, and are expected to attend thousands of kilometers away. This makes it impossible for them to vote.

Reports in also that there is a heavy presence of security personnel observing who is going in and out of polling stations.

The ballot paper is also confirmed as problematic, ZANU PF candidates are in bold, and easily identified, candidates from other parties are blurred or not easily identified.