The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has reacted to the unregulated postal voting which was done by members of the police at Ross Camp in Bulawayo on Thursday.

ZEC Commissioner Qhubani Moyo said in a statement late Thursday that the Commission tasked with administering all the country’s election processes is not involved in the postal voting process.

Hundreds of police officers were caught on camera red handed while casting their postal votes in a hidden process at the police camp.

The officers claimed that they were being forced to vote for the ruling ZANU PF by their superiors who conducted the voting with no officials from ZEC or election agents from any of the contesting candidates.

When news of the voting taking place broke out, ZEC initially disputed the leak before evidence was provided that the voting was indeed interrupted by MDC Alliance officials following the tip off.

Senior police officers confirmed that the voting did indeed take place.

Commissioner Moyo wrote in his response saying:

After speaking to Senior Ass Commissioner Makodza, ZRP commander on 2018 elections about police postal votes, he says some police officers who applied for postal votes because they will be out of their stations on election day administered their postal ballots in secrecy in Bulawayo today.

The process will happen all over the country and in diplomatic missions but these ballots should be with at Zec HQ by 16 July 2018.

There is no requirement for Zec to be present when individuals vote, Zec meets their ballots when they courier them to the CEO who in turn sends them to respective polling stations where they are opened on election day and counted with the rest of ballots cast on that day!!7000 Zimbabweans qualified for postal votes for this election.