HARARE, JULY 19 — The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) on Thursday refuted allegations made by an independent group that the voters’ roll of the July 30 general elections is unclean and contains “ghost voters.”
ZEC chairperson Priscilla Chigumba said in a statement that the commission had checked all the alleged ghosts and was satisfied that the voters who had the same names and dates of birth were unique individuals with unique photographs and fingerprints.
“The commission would be grateful to show the records of these individuals to stakeholders. The commission can therefore not disenfranchise them,” she said.
The independent group calling itself “Team Pachedu” had accused ZEC of coming up with a voters’ roll with 250,000 ghost voters.
Among the team’s “findings” were the alleged duplication of identity numbers with different names, or slight changes to spellings, similar ID numbers and the same person registered at different polling stations.
However, Chigumba dismissed the analysis that the commission stuffed the roll with ghost voters based on the argument that the coincidence of having people with the same name, surname and date of birth was “statistically unlikely”.
“The commission has taken note of these and wishes to advise stakeholders that an analysis of the number of voters in the roll with similar surnames shows that 115,446 voters have a Moyo surname,” she said.
She said during the voters’ roll inspection period, 114,691 requests data corrections were received and effected.
On the issue of duplicate national identity numbers, she said the commission had engaged the Registrar-General’s Office for verification.
“Some cases were resolved while a number are still under investigation. In order for the commission to finalize the voters’ roll in time for the elections, 1,667 cases of duplicate ID numbers that are still under investigation were excluded from the voters’ roll and compiled in the Exclusion List.”
She said 510 of these shared the same ID numbers but with different details while 1,157 shared the same ID numbers and details but were different individuals based on biometric data. – XINHUA
33 comments
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] There you can find 4984 additional Info on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Here you will find 85243 additional Info on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More to that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More Information here on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More Info here to that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More here to that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] There you can find 29786 additional Information on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] There you can find 54334 additional Info on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Here you can find 3677 more Info on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Info on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] There you will find 66447 more Information to that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] There you can find 12227 more Information on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More here on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on to that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More Information here to that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More to that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] There you can find 594 more Information to that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Info to that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] There you will find 47748 additional Info on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More Information here to that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More to that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Information to that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More here to that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More here on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]
… [Trackback]
[…] Information on that Topic: namibiadailynews.info/zimbabwe-electoral-body-refutes-ghost-voters-allegations/ […]