The special vote for the 90 000 security personal and
election officials has turned into a complete farce as many polling stations
had no ballot papers, voters’ roll on Sunday, the day the voting was supposed
to start.
Voting was supposed to be over two days but was
extended into a third day in the end.
I expected Zanu PF to rig
these elections and what better way to do that than by mudding the waters.
Mudding the waters is one thing what Zanu PF is doing now is churning
everything so much so that there is not muddy waters but mud.
It is inconceivable that ZEC
would have failed to release the ballot papers to cover the 90 000 expected to
vote on Sunday and Monday. They would have released them and the ballot papers
have since disappeared.
S W Radio Africa’s Simon
Muchemwa said ZEC could not say how many ballots were released for the special
vote. So they do not know how ballots they issued and what
happened to them.
In mudded waters ZEC would
have done well to account for 80% of the ballot papers. In porridge thick mud,
ZEC does not have the foggiest idea what is going on. Zanu PF operatives
have taken over the whole process and right now a few individuals have been
very busy "voting" on behalf of the tens of thousands who
thought they had the special vote but have since found that they did not.
The
same individuals will be "voting" for the millions of
Zimbabweans who too will be denied the right to vote come July 31.
If
MDC had implemented the democratic reforms; the idiots had five years to do so
but failed to get even one reform implemented; then these elections would be
held in clear waters. In the March 2013 Copac referendum the nation had its
last chance to force the implementation of reforms by rejecting the feeble
constitution. Instead of seizing this last chance Tsvangirai and MDC lied about
Copac bringing free and fair elections just to get the people to vote yes in
the referendum.
Yes it is Mugabe and his
Zanu PF thugs who are mudding the water but it was Tsvangirai and MDC who have done
donkey work of supplying silt and churning it all up! Tsvangirai’s
breath-taking incompetence has made it almost impossible for Mugabe NOT to rig
these elections. Impossible!
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The special vote has shown that even ZEC does not know how many ballot papers it issued, why they never arrived at the polling stations and, worse still, what happened to the missing ballot papers?
Holding free and fair elections without any of the reforms was always going to be a serious challenge. It is already clear that with Mugabe and Zanu PF running the show, it is IMPOSSIBLE! Whereas the nation was fearful Mugabe would mudded the waters, he has done a lot worse turned everything into muddy; there is no pretence of a transparent electoral process!
The people of Zimbabwe have a right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country. Mugabe has denied them this right for the last 33 years; he should not be allowed to do so again this year!
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