Exposed: How Zimbabwe Elections Are Rigged
A Zimbabwe voter gets his name checked (manually) against the voters' roll. The process has opened the door to cheating by parties and there is no one worried about the loopholes at all. Notice that the voter is holding his identity card and the harassed polling officer has to simply check to make sure the name is on the roll. Harare, Zimbabwe, 24 November 2009 There are the beatings. And the intimidation. Everyone knows this is how Mugabe rigs elections to get elected. But something else has now come to light which should prompt the government to put in place measures that can curb an even more difficult rigging process that is almost impossible to stop right now. Here's the deal. With more than five million registered voters in Zimbabwe (almost six million), we always get around 3 million people only voting. There are also people who are not registered to vote, either because they can prove residence (a house they live in and so on) or are lain lazy to do so. Parliament has ...