ERC welcomes inspection of voters roll via mobile shortcodes.
1.The Election Resource Centre (ERC) is a think tank and advocacy organization
organisation on electoral and democracy issues in Zimbabwe.
2.Following numerous reports of anomalies in the voters roll, ERC welcomes the move
by ZEC to avail voters roll inspection at a no cost platform through mobile phone
shortcodes on Econet and Netone lines. Section 21 of the Electoral Act states that the
voters roll is a public document and open to inspection by the public, free of charge
and the ERC applauds ZEC for making the voters roll accessible.
3.We urge the Electoral Commission to continuously address concerns by stakeholders
throughout the electoral cycle as a confidence building mechanism. A voters roll is a
document that every citizen and political party has interest in and to that regard the
Commission must aim to provide this without that will be presumed as making the
electoral process unfairly skewed.
