Source: 5 million registered so far to vote – DailyNews Live
STAFF WRITER 24 January 2018
HARARE – Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said 5,021,295 voters
have been registered for the vote so far.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said Zimbabwe will hold elections in four
to five months.
With less than a fortnight before the end of the mop up biometric voter
registration (BVR) blitz which ends on February 8, the figure represents
69 percent of the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstats) 2018
projected voter population of 7 224 129.
“The above figures exclude returns or submissions from 52 centres due to
network and communication challenges. Figures from these remote and
inaccessible centres are coming at different intervals as and when they
manage to get the network or travel to accessible areas,” Zec said in a
notice of the cumulative figures so far.
Zec acting chairperson Emmanuel Magade said: “You may recall that in 2008
about 2 537 214 voted in the presidential race, 3 48 947 in 2013 and about
3 300 000 in the referendum. So we are on course. I want to urge the youth
in particular to register to vote because tomorrow belongs to them.” –
Farayi Machamire
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