ZEC did a bad job in 2023 elections, it was so embarrassing #ElectionsZW
Zengeza West legislator Innocent Zvaipa told Parliament that the manner in which the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission conducted the 2023 general elections was embarrassing.
Honourable Zvaipa said the 2023 polls were so shameful that they can only be corrected by doing another round of elections.
Adding his voice to debate on the ZEC 2023 Election Report, in the National Assembly, Zvaipa said there were so many mistakes and errors that cannot be ignored.
‘’On behalf of my constituency that I represent, the ballot boxes arrived at 11am whilst the election was supposed to start at 7am. So, that is very bad and that mistake was done by ZEC. I have Ward 12 where there is Zengeza Primary School, they received a ballot book written Epworth whilst we were in Zengeza. It was only raised by a voter who said that the candidates are not ours. I do not think that ZEC did a good job.
‘’In my own opinion, the election was supposed to be redone in order for it to be corrected. The law says the voters roll is supposed to be pasted outside the polling station two days before but at our polling station, it was posted on the night before the election.
‘’People went to vote whilst they did not know whether they were supposed to vote. ZEC did a very bad job and it was so embarrassing. That is why you saw the whole world saying the election that was conducted in Zimbabwe was not an election. The election was not conducted well. What I would like to say is that this ZEC report is bad.
‘’The most painful thing is that some players are playing with their boots on whilst others are not, yet ZEC is allowing that. I say so because urban voters are the ones who got their ballot papers late yet those in the urban areas like in Warren Park got their ballot papers around 12 midday. Madam President, do you not think that ZEC did a shoddy job there?-
ZEC did a bad job in 2023 elections, it was so embarrassing #ElectionsZW
