Zimbabwe: Polls: It's Well With Rules, Playground

18 October 2016
editorial

Latest developments at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission show that the body mandated to conduct elections and referendums in the country is moving in the right direction.The commission is putting in place the infrastructure that will allow the smooth administration of polls -- the earliest big test of which will be the harmonised elections due in 2018.The most notable of the innovations that are being implemented at ZEC is the rolling out of the biometric system and registration and voting will be conducted using this technology that involves capturing an individuals' date of birth, name, ID number and fingerprints.

A new voters' roll is being constituted nationally and soon elections will be held using this system that, to all intents and purposes, sounds and appear a foolproof regime.Given the fact that the voters roll in the electronic format has been one of the major demands of the opposition and that the old manual roll was outdated and cumbersome, we expected technology to quickly answer some of the questions that have traditionally been asked of our processes.

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