By Own Correspondent| Civil servants deployed to conduct the forthcoming elections must be posted in wards where they are registered voters as a way of ensuring that they are not disenfranchised, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said.

Addressing a Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) conference on elections in Bulawayo (Thursday), ZEC Commissioner, Qhubani Moyo called on authorities to ensure that civil servants recruited for the 2018 harmonised elections are deployed in their respective wards to allow them to exercise their right to vote.

“The most ideal thing is that if one is a teacher, she or he is supposed to be deployed in his or her own ward so that they are able to vote.

I suppose this also apply to police officers who are involved in the elections,” he said.

The new biometric voter registration (BVR) system, compels eligible voters to cast their votes at a particular polling station within their wards unlike the previous system which allowed a voter to cast their ballot at any polling station as long as it was within their constituency.

The ZEC hired civil servants including teachers and police officers to assist in the conduct of elections and to provide security before, during and after the election period slated for July 30 2018.