Shocking Evidence of MDC-T Vote Rigging
5 April 2011
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-How Lovemore Moyo facilitated the rigging of UK elections-
Leeds(ZimEye) The MDC party led by Morgan Tsvangirai in the UK risks a major split after shocking evidence of shameful vote rigging emerged at the MDC-T national elections Saturday at Leeds where chair-position contestant Emily Madamombe lost to outgoing interim chairman Tonderai Samanyanga.
Madamombe lost to Samanyanga by two votes, figures evidently adjusted two hours after an initial result-disclosure made only to the contestants after the voting process in which women with their children were forced to endure long hours stretching into the following day Sunday.
Madamombe has launched a challenge demanding a nullification of the election.

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Emily Madamombe in the meeting hall at 2245Hours

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Emily Madamombe in the meeting hall througout the duration of election . She was dressed in this attire from 1100 - 2200Hrs

Party members accuse Moyo of deliberately engineering the election outcome to easily secure a provincial vote for the upcoming MDC national congress to be held in Harare penned for this month. According to the alleged strategy, the losing candidate Samanyanga who was seen almost in tears just after the initial announcement would then organise his province to vote for Lovemore Moyo who is reportedly set for a fierce combat with either Sam Sipepa Nkomo, or Lucia Matibenga during the upcoming party congress.
Vote Recount Denied
When challenged to do a recount of votes, Lovemore Moyo vehemently refused. Several senior party members interviewed by ZimEye have given testimony and queried why Moyo did not perform the recount which they said could have lasted less than 20 minutes to complete.
“Lovemore Moyo refused to do a vote recount as (also) demanded by Theresa Makone upon Emily Madamombe’s request. Why did he do that?”, charged the executive members who requested anonymity, Monday.
At the beginning of the voting process Moyo had declared that every individual in the meeting hall would vote, despite a strict MDC-T party statute which states that in that type of election only district executive members are eligible. “Everyone in this place is going to vote today”, Moyo had announced early afternoon Saturday before the voting process commenced. 
 
Deliberate Time Stretch
The election which would have lasted less than ninety minutes and involving less than 500 voters was stretched into midnight when both independent observers and many journalists now tired had vacated the building. The meeting lasted more than 13 hours and continued past midnight in what ended up appearing like a national election involving millions of voters when only about just 430 people were voting. At 0010Hrs women with families living more than 200 miles away were only beginning to vote. The delay has been sharply criticized by the ZAPU party.
“In ZAPU the previous elections have been less than two hours. They have been so efficient and quick and to hear that an election can go up to the next day is so pathetic considering that there were women and kids. Maybe the MDC should learn from smaller parties than learning from ZANU”, said a Leeds based ZAPU cadre.
The MDC party led by Welshman Ncube also criticised the delay. The party’s deputy chairman for UK said that the process should not last more than 3 hours, referring also to that party’s upcoming UK elections due in June 2011.
“A provincial election should not last more than 3 hours” said Langelihle Khoza.
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Dressed to rig?.... Lovemore Moyo sits authoritatively in a leather cap. Thamsanga Mahlangu(left) reasons with another party member

If it is true that the election lasted more than 12 hours, that is just too long, because even in a normal working environment people work up to eight hours,” hinted Khoza adding that some people in the MDC-T party are what he termed ‘pseudo-democrats’ who claim to be advocates of democracy when in actual fact they are not.
 
Trail of Events
1100Hours-  Meeting Commences, people begin swamming the meeting hall. Election Observers prepare ballot papers.
1300Hours to 1500Hours – Speeches Begin, Thamsanga Mahlangu, Theresa Makone and Lovemore Moyo speak.
Lovemore Moyo announces that everyone would vote.
1338Hours – Interim Outgoing chairman, Tonderai Samanyanga informs ZimEye the contrary that only district executives were allowed to vote(audio recording archived).
1500 – Voting begins
Party members vote, with ordinary party members taking part as well.
1600Hrs – 1700Hrs Leeds Party Member ‘Fidza’ votes three times in full view of security. Returns 30 minutes later and challenges the organisers on the voting process’ authenticity.
1800Hrs – Theresa Makone ejects Fidza from the meeting hall.
1830Hrs – A female party ordinary member from Glasgow votes in full view of security.
2215Hrs – Chairmanship votes secretly announced. Madamombe heads for hotel to prepare for inauguration.
2245Hrs – Madamombe returns to meeting hall.
0010Hrs – Women begin lining up for voting.
0030Hrs (Sunday)- Announcement is made that Madamombe has lost. Madamombe requests a recount of votes. Lovemore Moyo refuses to recount the votes.
 
Secret Results
Results from the election were first announced to the contestants of the chair-post who were strictly ordered not to inform anyone until official announcement was made. Upon returning to the hall, Madamombe was shocked to find out the figures had been altered against her and that she was now two votes behind Samanyanga.
Madamombe (pictured) was seen in new official attire as she returned to the hall prepared to make her first speech as the new chairperson. It was at this time she was told that she had lost.
British Businessman and a key supporter of the MDC party Alan Fish who has worked tirelessly to help asylum seekers, announced Monday he would never again support the MDC party saying that it had proved to be a party that cheats on its own people. 
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20 Replies to “Shocking Evidence of MDC-T Vote Rigging”

  1. Madamombe was beaten by 2 votes.Imi hamuzive here kuti haana kukwana.unoenda kunochinja hembe imi manzi musataurire vanhu kusvikira maresults ataurwa.Some of us we are very happy because if she had won I was going to resign from MDC.The problem with the majority of you you dont know how MDC functions.Shame on you lots.

  2. Dzimai, rega ndikubate muromo usati wanyanyorasika. Hapana vote-rigging inonzi igood reason. Siyai zvido zveruzhinji zviitwe, ndiko kunonzi kurasika kunoitwa nemaopportunists. Rigging is bad and its bad, period!

  3. Iwe Sarah Chipandu, chiroto chako chave chekudhara and such it is very irrelevant. Wakambondiudza nezvechiroto ichi ndichiri kudanana newe takarara ndabva kukublasta in 2001. Ten years have gone by wabva mukurota uku and you still want to believe kuti zvichaita chete. Ndokusaka ndakakaramba kanongoti tumagaro twakaomarara sematamba

  4. T. Musango!
    There are two sides of silence. If the accused speak then we hear their side. It is so easy to read their response versus the allegation and make a fair and true conclusion. Maybe they had a very good reason for doing vote-rigging.

  5. Anoiwana kupi mari yese iyi Mugabe?
    Ini musi wa23 March2001, ndaratidzwa kuhope vaTsvangirai vakagara PANYANGA pamwe chete naTendai Biti; Mugabe na Gono vakange vafa, Grace atiza kuMalasia. Chihuri wasungwa ku South Africa.
    Kana musingatendi vaPorofita hameno henyu muchafira makagara munyasi megomo
    Rambai henyu kutenda zvokwadi ichitaurwa

  6. Dzimai, urikuda kunzwa from the accused. Let me ask u one question, what do u think and believe the accused is going to say about the charges layed against him? No wonder u guys keep pouring money to these opportunists. U seriously believe that the accused is going to say,”yes I plead guilty to rigging”. Usafunge kunge munhu arimuchiroto.

  7. I think it is an allegation that MDC-T did vote rigging. It is wrong to rush to a conclusion that is why they say that all are innocent until proven guilty.
    The allegation of vote-rigging is serious that is why I want to hear from Lovemore Moyo himself or Theresa Makone. These guys are womenisers. When one of their directors was caught in the act they were complaining that MDC offices are not a boarding school where dating is prohibited. If they dont respond to the vote-rigging allegation then these guys will be communicating that they are indeed a delegation of whores and thieves. Let us hear from them….

  8. Silly fool indeed, but iyi ndeyenyu hatiipindire nekuti imi ndimi munogona. The truth shall always come out even pama national elections chaipo. We want to see who is fooling who. but we don’t want another confusing solution of having another MDC England or MDC Madamombe, we want you as you are tikurakasheyi musazoti he-e inyaya yeku splitter njani njani

  9. Which party makes married women with their little babies at the side vote at midnight? None but MDC, you are a boody disgrace yourself and your Tsvangirai. I think i will go back to zanu pf. at lest there elections do not last more than 13 hours, Bloody idddeiots!

  10. Dzimai Moto, are you blind, stupid or uneducated? Have you been following this story?
    Did you not read kuti the figures were changed?
    In any case in our party (which I have been a member since 1999), ifn a dispute occurs over an election announcement, the process cannot continue until the dispute is attended to. Why did Lovemore not stop and attend to the dispute there and then which would not have taken 20 minutes to complete?
    People voted multiple times and a vote recount was disallowedv have you not read it? I guess you must be Lovemore himself or his brother. You are a Silly fool!

  11. Did they use indelible ink after voting? depended on security to identify each person out of 400 pleople. Those complaining voted 3 times guess to which candidate.A person voted who was not suppose to vote, he makes a lot of noise inorder to stop & delay all voting.a bunch of holigans doing their thing.

  12. Can you please explain how the rigging was done. We want to hear from Lovemore Moyo and company as well.

  13. He tried it Botswana with the likes of Bhebhe and gang to cheat them into leaving MDCNhe blundred and now he brings mess to the UK after that failed scandal in Botswana.In the UK ITS WORSE ..LOOK AT WHO WAS ACCOMPANING HIM..where is CHINS’ cell phone …hokoyo.

  14. Kwanzi dressed to rig, ki ki ki ki ki ki, ndatapirirwa zvangu ini nemurume wa Tete Vaneshanje uyu anonzi ovemore Moyo

  15. Are these the same baboons that go around complaining that zanu-pf rigs election….ki ki ki ki ki

  16. Wheere you there you Murefu Ngwarai?
    We were there. tajazvionera tega. Lovemore Moyo ibenzi rinonda kushandisa vanhu.
    Does it make sense to stretch a voting for more than 9 hours? you are all iddeots mhani! i am quitting this mdc sh.it!

  17. Ah nxe izinto zamanga lezi. Where is the evidence of rigging from this report guys? Who told the fency lady that she had won? Amawala! Wayesentshintshelani isigqoko? Ini ndinogara ndichitaura kuti mu MDC T hakuna democracy. Ngai tonge tichaona nhamo. What would one really expect from Thamsanqa Mahlangu? UmfokaNzuza vele ezintweni zobuqili, ubusela nje lokunye uyabulala magents!

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