By Own Correspondent| The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday refuted claims that members of the uniformed forces cast their votes during the day adding that the elections body is still processing postal vote applications.

ZEC Acting Chief Elections Officer, Utoile Silaigwana said social media claims that members of the ZRP voted were being circulated by malcontents bent on causing alarm and despondency ahead of the July 30 harmonised elections.

“This is hogwash and very stupid propaganda because in the first place they have photos of a police officer standing near a ballot box yet with postal voting a voter doesn’t use a ballot box,” he said.

“Postal voting is for individuals who apply for it and he or she is given a ballot paper in an envelope and returns it sealed. This is cheap propaganda without substance at all. This is coming from a person who doesn’t even understand the process. The pictures they put have nothing to do with postal vote and these people just want cause despondency in the country.”

The social media was awash with pictures of police officers casting their vote amid allegations that at Ross camp in Bulawayo, members of the force were voting in the presence of their superiors.

But to add to the pictures, impeccabke LIVE videos showed the police officers submitting their votes in the presence of superiors and the below footage is one of them:

Read one of the messages doing the rounds:

“Vari mu ground izvozvi they’re busy voting. Please send someone kuRose Camp mapurisa are busy voting vapihwa ma ballot papers avo nema superior avo vachivhoteswa pana Garwe it’s happening now.”

Translated, the message reads:

“They are on the ground now and they are busy voting. Please send someone to Rose Camp. The police are busy voting, they have been given their ballot papers by their superiors and they are voting for President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Its happening now.”