Zimbabwe: Opposition Figure Calls for 'Passive Resistance'

Zimbabwe's main opposition party has said Wednesday's national vote was illegitimate because of alleged irregularities, intimidation and election tampering.

The party's top leader is calling for an audit, and another outspoken party leader who lives in South Africa is calling for the population to resist: not by rising up, but by doing nothing. Exiled politician Roy Bennett is calling on fellow citizens to stop paying their bills as a way of expressing their disapproval of the vote.

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