By Dorrothy Moyo| A breakthrough has been reached with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission – for the first time since the MDC was formed in 1999, as ZimEye reveals: the ZEC has promised to dish out the electoral roll soon after the 14th June 2018. Article continues below VIDEO : 

The development is set to empower both politicians and voters with knowledge and access to a level playing field.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has admitted that previous elections were not free and fair. One of the areas has been the voters roll which has been edited so to favour ruling party contestants. That is set to be a thing of the past if the declarations by the ZEC can be relied on.

The ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba has promised that every candidate will obtain a copy of the roll.

Justice Chigumba who has been albeit accused of travelling to Russia to learn vote rigging tactics said, “we have said we will give the voters roll to everyone who wants it as soon as we have the final copy, what we have at the moment is work in progress; In fact, each candidate that will be successfully nominated we also receive a free copy of the voters roll, every one of them and it will be at ZEC’s expense.”

She also added saying the roll will be accessible in all requested formats, paper and eletronic. “So whether it’s Presidential candidate, Parliamentary or local authority as soon as you are nominated you will get a copy of the voters’ roll of the area you are contesting,” she said.

She continued adding that, “anyone who wants it can still come and get them for a fee at our offices in the various formats,” she said.

See Justice Chigumba’s recent video interviews below: