Makone alleges electoral fraud

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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 22:23

HARARE - MDC (Tsvangirai) candidate for Harare North, Theresa Makone alleges electoral fraud in the constituency through the manipulation of the voter registration process.
Makone, who is the MDC House of Assembly candidate for Harare North, says she has established that the ruling party has been bussing voters from outside of the constituency and ensured they were all registered to vote, in addition to having many names of dead people still appearing on the voters' roll. She is battling it out with Zanu (PF)'s Justice Zvandarasha and MDC (Mutambara)'s Trudy Stevenson.
Makone, whose husband Ian is the MDC director of elections, says that she is planning to appeal to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) after discovering the "broad daylight cheating" even before the elections day. Ian says that the situation in Harare North is prevailing generally across the whole country making the voters' roll shambolic.
"We have established that there is serious fraud in the constituency and Zanu (PF) is determined to steal victory in Harare North unless something is done to stop the cheating," Makone said. "There are many ghost voters registered in the constituency and we have discovered that it was done systematically with what appears to be the collaboration of election authorities. We are going to appeal against this as a matter of urgency."
ZEC director of public relations Shupikai Mashereni, said they were yet to formally get complaints from the MDC over the allegations of fraud and Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede, who conducted the voter registration process said, "the process was done in a transparent manner and all parties were able to assess the voters' roll".

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