Opinion / Columnist
I voted multiple times for people living in the diaspora at the insistence of Tobaiwa Mudede
01 Jul 2017 at 11:33hrs | Views
Tobaiwa Mudede, a Mugabe's apologetic civil servant who is somehow immune to retirement is a perennial electoral impostor, manipulator of the voters roll and an agent of corrupting the democratic electoral processes. Mudede is the metaphor for all what is wrong with voter registration and preparation of the voters roll including its management procedures and implementation. His conduct is a blatant act of subversion of the electoral act and the democratic electoral processes instituted by the constitution of Zimbabwe. His unbecoming and appalling behaviour is of a man who projects himself with high official esteem but for a time long acceded to fear of losing power as a result of conducting free, fair and credible elections. His neutrality and impartiality in compiling the voters roll is discredited and a cause of concern for many progressive Zimbabweans who are keen to exercise their democratic and constitutional rights to choose their leaders in the spirit of transparency and fairness. Mudede must be called 'a spade a spade' for what he is. He, Tobaiwa Mudede on behalf of Mugabe and ZANU PF coordinates widespread voter impersonation in successive elections in order to steal elections using ineligible people to vote by pretence under the names of absentee eligible voters. People living in the diaspora and those that are deceased are kept on the voters roll by deception and trickery by a biased ZANU PF supporter, Tobaiwa Mudede. His basic unholy grail is of unrepentant, deliberate and an intentional electoral act of misconduct for voter impersonation to swing the votes in favour of ZANU PF and to justify his strategies for multiple voting and ballot stuffing.
The processes of voter registration and the preparation of the voters roll is from one election to the other a thuggish secretive reserve of Tobaiwa Mudede, the military and President Mugabe. There is evidence that in 2013 elections the voters roll was dominated by a deliberate repetition of hundreds of thousands of ghost voters; people living in the diaspora and the names of dead people. Mudede who has worked for three decades in the department of births and deaths as a voters roll manipulator and trickster issued fake IDs and other registration documents that resulted in more than 1, 5 million fake names appearing on the voters roll across the country including the dead and exiled. There were over 1 000 000 people on the roll who were deceased; 63 constituencies had more registered voters than inhabitants; 41 constituencies were deviated from the average number of voters per constituency by more than the permitted 20% and the registration rate of women was significantly less than that of men in metropolitan provinces, (Research & Advocacy Unit. June 2013 Voters Roll. Harare). Mudede knowingly contravened the provisions of the constitution imposed an embargo to deny Zimbabweans living abroad entitlement to vote in the national elections declaring them foreigners. These discrepancies cannot be attributed to a common error of judgement by Mudede but a deliberate act of electoral misconduct, a criminal offence; a violation of work ethics and a disregard of the trust expected of him by the people of Zimbabwe. The World Bank collection of development indicators (2015) estimated the death rate in Zimbabwe at 9 086 people in 2015. By the end of 2013 statistics showed that there were 45 000 Zimbabweans living in USA, 100 000 in Botswana and 50 000 in Canada. The statistics of 2011 showed that they were 40 000 Zimbabweans living in Australia; 50 000 in UK and up to three million Zimbabweans living in South Africa. These are staggering figures that are vulnerable and subject to manipulation, impersonation and felon acts of a breach of the constitution by an unethical and dishonest Mudede.
The prediction for 2018 is that Mudede is keen to recycle the same fraudulent tactics he used in 2013 by allowing ZANU PF politically compromised traditional leaders to compile global names of rural villagers under their jurisdiction and register them on the voters roll on their behalf. The strategy was psychological intimidation of poor rural people to vote for ZANUPF. Mudede will continue to restrict information and publicity about voter registration centres and dates in opposition strong holds. Mudede, in 2013 reduced the registration days to a bare minimum of three days; introducing strict requirements for voter registration in his targeted constituencies and keeping the opposition parties in the dark about the progress of the voter registration process. The strategy was to disenfranchise the votes in opposition strongholds. Mudede withheld the voters roll for inspection by both the civic society and opposition parties until the very last minute before commencement of voting. It is believed that names of voters in competing constituencies were deliberately removed from the voters roll. People living in Zimbabwe with dual citizenship and those born of parents with foreign citizenship were also denied voting rights unless they denounced the citizenship of their other country. This is untoward behaviour of state organised electoral breach that compromised the ethos, values, laws, people confidence and mandate for government to run free and credible elections.
It is now public knowledge cited in the report of Campbell Foundation 2013 that in 2013 national elections Mudede handed both the hard copy and electronic version of the voter's roll over to the military nine days (why?) before the commencement of voting. This information provides compelling evidence how heavily militarised the electoral system in Zimbabwe has become. Mudede then handed the hard copy version of the voters roll over to ZEC less than 48 hours before voting commenced. Understand that ZEC is nothing more than a part of the rigging process. ZEC does not have the optimum autonomy and sovereign to run the election as an entity within the premises of the constitution. ZEC is merely symbolic. The opposition parties received the voters roll copies 24 hours before the start of voting. That was a planned strategy by Mudede to deny the electorate and opposition parties enough time to inspect the voters roll and for that little time period legal challenges were impossible to question the shambles in the voters roll. Mudede gets rewarded heavily by his master for doing this unethical job.
In 2013 elections tens of thousands of youth militias were deployed in secret military command centres such as Manyame Base, Inkomo Barracks, Brady Barracks, Lliwellin Barracks, Thorn Hill Air Base, Mutare 3 Brigade and Masvingo 4 Brigade Army HQ to literally fill in ballot slips in favour of Mugabe and ZANU PF, (Mike Campbell Foundation, 2013). This presented a minor shift from the usually physical violence perpetrated by ZANUPF militias to portray a sense of free and fair elections to using the militias for acts of electoral deception and impersonation. The militias were trained and supervised by a special military rigging committee appointed by Mugabe with specific instructions to propel him to a 61% win by fraudulent and deceitful multiple voting using absentee voters, deceased people and ghost voters. 2008 elections also presented an insight of the depth and scale of electoral fraud conducted by ZANU PF when a prison senior officer was captured on video by a concerned citizen demanding members of the prison services to show their voting preference before depositing the ballot paper into the ballot box. The hypothesis is that this also happens in the army, police, intelligence services and overseas missions. This is the reason why it is virtually impossible in Zimbabwe to have a recount and tallying of votes after the announcement of results when challenged to conduct a recount. In 2013 Tsvangirai had to drop his challenge to Mugabe's Presidential election win because he was denied polling evidence by ZEC ostensibly at the behest of Mugabe
The grand plan by Mudede is a portrait of ZANU PF's use of the voters roll to produce an electoral outcome that is favourable to Mugabe and ZANU PF with a barefaced disregard of the constitution and people's democratic rights to choose their leaders and to effect regime change. Mudede and all other branches of ZANU PF rigging machinery are expected to advance unabated new pervasive and illusive innovative rigging daring acts in the next elections. The biometric voter verification system is unlikely to be used in the next elections because ZANU PF will always sabotage any innovate reforms that are fair. No one votes for ZANU PF it votes itself to power. If ZANU PF has all these people that they display in their rallies why then cheat in the elections?
The processes of voter registration and the preparation of the voters roll is from one election to the other a thuggish secretive reserve of Tobaiwa Mudede, the military and President Mugabe. There is evidence that in 2013 elections the voters roll was dominated by a deliberate repetition of hundreds of thousands of ghost voters; people living in the diaspora and the names of dead people. Mudede who has worked for three decades in the department of births and deaths as a voters roll manipulator and trickster issued fake IDs and other registration documents that resulted in more than 1, 5 million fake names appearing on the voters roll across the country including the dead and exiled. There were over 1 000 000 people on the roll who were deceased; 63 constituencies had more registered voters than inhabitants; 41 constituencies were deviated from the average number of voters per constituency by more than the permitted 20% and the registration rate of women was significantly less than that of men in metropolitan provinces, (Research & Advocacy Unit. June 2013 Voters Roll. Harare). Mudede knowingly contravened the provisions of the constitution imposed an embargo to deny Zimbabweans living abroad entitlement to vote in the national elections declaring them foreigners. These discrepancies cannot be attributed to a common error of judgement by Mudede but a deliberate act of electoral misconduct, a criminal offence; a violation of work ethics and a disregard of the trust expected of him by the people of Zimbabwe. The World Bank collection of development indicators (2015) estimated the death rate in Zimbabwe at 9 086 people in 2015. By the end of 2013 statistics showed that there were 45 000 Zimbabweans living in USA, 100 000 in Botswana and 50 000 in Canada. The statistics of 2011 showed that they were 40 000 Zimbabweans living in Australia; 50 000 in UK and up to three million Zimbabweans living in South Africa. These are staggering figures that are vulnerable and subject to manipulation, impersonation and felon acts of a breach of the constitution by an unethical and dishonest Mudede.
The prediction for 2018 is that Mudede is keen to recycle the same fraudulent tactics he used in 2013 by allowing ZANU PF politically compromised traditional leaders to compile global names of rural villagers under their jurisdiction and register them on the voters roll on their behalf. The strategy was psychological intimidation of poor rural people to vote for ZANUPF. Mudede will continue to restrict information and publicity about voter registration centres and dates in opposition strong holds. Mudede, in 2013 reduced the registration days to a bare minimum of three days; introducing strict requirements for voter registration in his targeted constituencies and keeping the opposition parties in the dark about the progress of the voter registration process. The strategy was to disenfranchise the votes in opposition strongholds. Mudede withheld the voters roll for inspection by both the civic society and opposition parties until the very last minute before commencement of voting. It is believed that names of voters in competing constituencies were deliberately removed from the voters roll. People living in Zimbabwe with dual citizenship and those born of parents with foreign citizenship were also denied voting rights unless they denounced the citizenship of their other country. This is untoward behaviour of state organised electoral breach that compromised the ethos, values, laws, people confidence and mandate for government to run free and credible elections.
It is now public knowledge cited in the report of Campbell Foundation 2013 that in 2013 national elections Mudede handed both the hard copy and electronic version of the voter's roll over to the military nine days (why?) before the commencement of voting. This information provides compelling evidence how heavily militarised the electoral system in Zimbabwe has become. Mudede then handed the hard copy version of the voters roll over to ZEC less than 48 hours before voting commenced. Understand that ZEC is nothing more than a part of the rigging process. ZEC does not have the optimum autonomy and sovereign to run the election as an entity within the premises of the constitution. ZEC is merely symbolic. The opposition parties received the voters roll copies 24 hours before the start of voting. That was a planned strategy by Mudede to deny the electorate and opposition parties enough time to inspect the voters roll and for that little time period legal challenges were impossible to question the shambles in the voters roll. Mudede gets rewarded heavily by his master for doing this unethical job.
In 2013 elections tens of thousands of youth militias were deployed in secret military command centres such as Manyame Base, Inkomo Barracks, Brady Barracks, Lliwellin Barracks, Thorn Hill Air Base, Mutare 3 Brigade and Masvingo 4 Brigade Army HQ to literally fill in ballot slips in favour of Mugabe and ZANU PF, (Mike Campbell Foundation, 2013). This presented a minor shift from the usually physical violence perpetrated by ZANUPF militias to portray a sense of free and fair elections to using the militias for acts of electoral deception and impersonation. The militias were trained and supervised by a special military rigging committee appointed by Mugabe with specific instructions to propel him to a 61% win by fraudulent and deceitful multiple voting using absentee voters, deceased people and ghost voters. 2008 elections also presented an insight of the depth and scale of electoral fraud conducted by ZANU PF when a prison senior officer was captured on video by a concerned citizen demanding members of the prison services to show their voting preference before depositing the ballot paper into the ballot box. The hypothesis is that this also happens in the army, police, intelligence services and overseas missions. This is the reason why it is virtually impossible in Zimbabwe to have a recount and tallying of votes after the announcement of results when challenged to conduct a recount. In 2013 Tsvangirai had to drop his challenge to Mugabe's Presidential election win because he was denied polling evidence by ZEC ostensibly at the behest of Mugabe
The grand plan by Mudede is a portrait of ZANU PF's use of the voters roll to produce an electoral outcome that is favourable to Mugabe and ZANU PF with a barefaced disregard of the constitution and people's democratic rights to choose their leaders and to effect regime change. Mudede and all other branches of ZANU PF rigging machinery are expected to advance unabated new pervasive and illusive innovative rigging daring acts in the next elections. The biometric voter verification system is unlikely to be used in the next elections because ZANU PF will always sabotage any innovate reforms that are fair. No one votes for ZANU PF it votes itself to power. If ZANU PF has all these people that they display in their rallies why then cheat in the elections?
Source - Themba Mthethwa
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