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Mobile voter registration closes
10 Jul 2013 at 04:29hrs | Views
The intensive mobile voter registration and inspection of the voters' roll ended yesterday with a huge turnout as people rushed to beat the deadline for the exercise.
In Harare yesterday scores of people the mobile centres to inspect, register or change their citizenship.
At Rugare Government Primary School in Harare, people had already formed a long queue as early as 7.30am.
Most of the people were registering to vote and inspect the roll, while a sizeable group were changing citizenship and acquiring new national identity documents.
"We are happy with the officials, they are fast. The process is going on smoothly," Mr Tendai Mutema of Rugare who had visited the centre to inspect the voters' rolls said.
It was also the same at other centres in Kambuzuma and Budiriro Community Halls.
Several people were waiting patiently in long meandering queues for their turn to be served.
The Marlborough High and Epworth Secondary schools mobile centres were equally busy as people rushed to beat the registration deadline.
The mobile voter registration and inspection of the roll began after the publication of the new Constitution on May 22.
ZEC said 204 000 new voters registered in the opening phase, which ran from April 29 to May 19, while 273 319 others registered to vote by June 26 under the intensive phase.
In Harare yesterday scores of people the mobile centres to inspect, register or change their citizenship.
At Rugare Government Primary School in Harare, people had already formed a long queue as early as 7.30am.
Most of the people were registering to vote and inspect the roll, while a sizeable group were changing citizenship and acquiring new national identity documents.
"We are happy with the officials, they are fast. The process is going on smoothly," Mr Tendai Mutema of Rugare who had visited the centre to inspect the voters' rolls said.
It was also the same at other centres in Kambuzuma and Budiriro Community Halls.
Several people were waiting patiently in long meandering queues for their turn to be served.
The Marlborough High and Epworth Secondary schools mobile centres were equally busy as people rushed to beat the registration deadline.
The mobile voter registration and inspection of the roll began after the publication of the new Constitution on May 22.
ZEC said 204 000 new voters registered in the opening phase, which ran from April 29 to May 19, while 273 319 others registered to vote by June 26 under the intensive phase.
Source - herald
