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Mukori speaksBy Wilbert Mukori| There is no doubt that MDC should have never agreed to take part in these elections without first implementing the democratic reforms which would have made is very difficult for Zanu PF to rig the elections and, if they tried, to hide the evidence. “MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections! ” Chamisa had promised but many of us knew that was all hot air and events have confirmed this.
So the Con-Court challenge of the election results given Zanu PF had all the opportunities to rig the vote and hide the evidence because no reforms had been implemented was always going to be a tough fight for the opposition.
Still people expected Chamisa’s lawyers to make a serious go at it and not make complete fools of themselves.
Advocate Mpofu, Chamisa’s lawyer, argued in court, that the number of people who only voted for the presidential candidates is very high.
ZEC’s own tallies for parliamentary and presidential showed that this was indeed the case.
ZEC has admitted that some people refused to take the parliamentary and/or council ballot because they only wanted to vote for the presidential candidates.
It was not enough for Chamisa’s lawyers to have noted the discrepancy in the tallies of presidential and parliamentary ballots; they should have asked for random samples of sealed boxes containing ballots and all the other materials relating to the elections to be opened to confirmed a record of those who had made this request was kept as is required by law.
ZEC, in it’s own sworn affidavit, has stated that it kept no such record.
We already know that ZEC had failed to produce a clean and verified voters’ roll although this too is a legal requirement.
So, what else was ZEC required to do by law but failed to do so?
There were 16 polling stations, according to Chamisa’s own legal submission, in which two or more stations had same number of ballots cast and Mnangagwa received exactly the same number of votes ±3 or so.
In the 2013 elections, it is common knowledge that Zanu PF had bussed its supporters from one polling station to the next casting multiple votes.
No one was able to prove this then because no verified voters’ roll was ever released, it was the smoking gun.
This years, ZEC again refused to release the voters’ roll it is quite possible there was a similar vote rigging shenanigans.
Chamisa’s team should have demanded to have the boxes of the 16 polling station opened for close scrutiny of the voters’ roll and established that nothing untoward had happened this time. 🔗 Read Full Article
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