EXPOSED: ZEC Never Allowed Political Parties To Verify Results
20 August 2018
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The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has been further exposed for not conducting a verification process. ZEC instead issued an “invitation to witness the verification by ZEC itself!,” says Build Zimbabwe Alliance’s Noah Manyika.

“The impression created by ZEC was that each presidential candidate or his representative would verify the results. Please note that the invitation was not to verify, but to witness the verification by ZEC itself! There is a world of difference between the two, ” adds Manyika

FULL STATEMENT:

After announcing the results of the parliamentary elections, the ZEC Chair Priscilla Chigumba told the nation that she had come ready to also announce the presidential results but had been alerted by a colleague that there was a legal requirement for all the presidential candidates or their agents to verify them before they were announced. The impression created was that it was the candidates or their reps who were holding up the announcement. The second impression was that when she would eventually announce the results, every candidate would have verified them as being true and accurate. Note the following: the invitation in the letter dated August 1 was not to verify, but to witness the verification by ZEC itself! There is a world of difference between the two. No candidate or rep was invited to verify, so no verification occurred. Upon arrival at the HICC, our own reps were told that they had misunderstood the Chair, and that the results were in fact still coming in, and that they were just being invited to see that there were people in the collation room working on them.