By Paul Nyathi|ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla says that all nominated candidates will receive their free copies of the voters roll in a few days when the names of those that successfully filed their papers are published.

Chigumba said this in her inaugural weekly election updates on Monday.

“I think in the next day or so you will see a list of all successfully nominated candidates, presidential, national assembly, and council appearing in newspapers which is also a legal requirement. What the law then says (is) immediately on gazetting the names of those successfully nominated candidates they must be provided with free copy of that voters roll.”

The ZEC chairperson said they were working frantically to print the required copies of all the candidates.

“We are actually frantically running all copies of ward-based voters roll, constituency based voters roll and national voters roll which must be availed to all successful nominated gazetted candidates.

“As you know the presidential (election) we have 23 candidates and it is our priority because it is a statutory constitutional requirement that those successfully nominated candidates be awarded their copies of the voters roll as prescribed in terms of the law and then members of the public will be allowed to pay for and access the voters roll,” Justice Chigumba said.

Chigumba is under pressure from opposition political parties to provide the voters roll for the elections set for the 30th of July this year.