By Own Correspondent| The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) has revealed that the 2018 Final Voters Roll for Mutoko North, has 0, 04% registrants who are above 100 years.

According to the organisation’s computer audit of the Mutoko Constituency voters roll, 10 registrants were above 100 years with the oldest registrant providing the year of birth as 1908.

Said the ZESN in a statement:

“The 2018 Final Voters Roll for Mutoko North, has 10 (0, 04%) registrants who are above 100 years.

In light of the Mutoko North by-election set for 24 Nov 2018, ZESN conducted a computer audit of the Constituency voters roll to provide an independent assessment of the quality of the register.

The problem of wrong dates of birth is a rampant problem in Zimbabwe and North Mutoko is no different. These wrong dates of birth make it harder to identify duplicated records in the register.

The ID number is meant to be unique or at least largely unique i.e. difficult to duplicate. Duplicated ID numbers in the voters roll points to there being no unique constraint, or mechanism to alert data entry staff of the presence of multiple entries.

At least 49 records were removed from the Mutoko North Roll – it’s not clear if they were transferred out or were removed completely while 26 new registrants were included to the Mutoko North roll of voters. These inclusions were the result of 23 new enrollments and 3 transfers.

When compared with the 2013 PVR for Mutoko North out of the 29,643 persons registered in 2013, only 13,538 registered voters remain in the voters roll.”

Below is the full ZESN report:

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