The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has denied allegations made by Prof Jonathan Moyo that it is working in cohorts with Chinese cyber experts to manipulate the BVR system and create virtual polling stations to guarantee victory for Mnangagwa.

ZEC says it is at the moment carrying out a second round of the de-duplication exercise of the voters’ roll to deal with people who registered during inspection of the BVR and expects to finish the process soon, according a state media reports.

ZEC also denied that it had already availed a physical copy of the voters’ roll to Zanu-pf after Former Higher Education Minister Prof Jonathan said he can testify under aoth that the copy has been availed and it is customary for ZEC to give Zanu -pf copies in advance while denying other parties access to the voters’ roll.

“That is false and mischievous (that ZEC has availed the voters’ roll to zanu-pf). The voters’ roll will be furnished to all political parties and candidates once the commission avails it in line with the provisions of the (Electoral) Act. At the moment, we are doing a second round of de-duplication using AFIS after we had registrants during the inspection of the BVR, we expect to be finished very soon.”

The elections management body denied that there were Chinese experts that had been seconded to work with them.

“That is false, we do not have any Chinese nationals working with ZEC in any capacity,” said ZEC.

“The allegations are purely malicious.”