By Farai D Hove| There is no such thing as election rigging in Zimbabwe this year the Zim Electoral Commission chairperson, Priscilla Chigumba has said.

As she responded to MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa, Justice Chigumba ruled out all and any possibility of election tampering, this year. She said this is all due to the Biometric Voter Registration computer system.

ZimEye has since the last year revealed how the BVR has been exposed by US academics as the hubb of many forms data related crime. Last year Havard University dedicated a full fledged funded research project that laid bare shocking loopholes in the system.

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But Chigumba said the country’s voting system is foolproof. She yesterday challenged anyone who could prove otherwise to step forward. Chigumba said the fact of the system being tamper-proof should ensure a free, fair and credible election that could not be rigged.

She, quoted by the state media, said ZEC was committed to providing a credible election through its 100 percent secure biometric voter registration (BVR) system.

BVR is a new voter registration system which captures an individual’s biometric features and ensures nobody can vote twice.

“The BVR system is tamper-proof for the simple reason that the data that we collected is housed in something called the consolidation server. The consolidation server contains the master server that contains all the information and we then have other servers which we are using to connect that data. Those servers have very strict protection files. They are very strict un-hackable access level passwords that are tamper-free,” said Justice Chigumba.

She said members of the public with evidence that the voting system could be interfered with should bring it forward.

“And I can assure Zimbabwean voters, if any Zimbabwean or any other person who has information that ZEC is involved in practices which might be viewed as tampering with that data base, can they bring that evidence to us,” she said.