Opinion / Columnist
Mandla reveals that Chamisa lost to Mnangagwa in 2023 Zimbabwe Presidential elections
24 Aug 2024 at 14:54hrs | Views
Thank you for your patience. It is the 1st anniversary of the elections. We all worked hard to mobilize resources and encourage people to vote. We went into a flawed election hoping that maybe we could overwhelm the system. From the delimitation process to voters roll, to the election day ballot crisis, it was clear that everything was skewed against the opposition.
On the eve of the elections, the Harare regime hunted down people who were doing parallel voter tabulation. A number of people were arrested. Fortunately, none of our volunteers were affected but they operated under great danger to themselves. Having more than 50 people's lives at stake was a huge burden.
We did the best we could to collate results. And citizens did amazingly great by sending us the V11s from their polling stations. Within the first 2 days we had collated about 75% of the polling stations.
We eventually were able to collate 10 250 polling stations in which we could verify their results. These represent about 84% of all polling stations used. We did receive a lot of results from other polling stations which we could not authenticate or verify. I have excluded those results from this spreadsheet.
The results on this spreadsheet only represent the polling stations we could back with signed and stamped v11s. We got a lot of dubious results from Mashonaland East, Central, and West. Those polling stations have been excluded.
We chose also not to even release these results in 2023 in the backdrop of the SADC report because we felt we were not in the business of legitimizing sham elections. We hoped CCC would reject the whole election in toto. Unfortunately, some decided to go to parliament and councils.
At the end of the day, I hope we all now are going to have honest conversations, now that you know a bit of what we knew.
On the eve of the elections, the Harare regime hunted down people who were doing parallel voter tabulation. A number of people were arrested. Fortunately, none of our volunteers were affected but they operated under great danger to themselves. Having more than 50 people's lives at stake was a huge burden.
Thank you for your patience. It is the 1st anniversary of the elections. We all worked hard to mobilize resources and to encourage pple to vote. We went into a flawed election hoping that maybe we could overwhelm the system. From the delimitation process, to voters roll, to the…
— Freeman (@freemanchari) August 23, 2024
We did the best we could to collate results. And citizens did amazingly great by sending us the V11s from their polling stations. Within the first 2 days we had collated about 75% of the polling stations.
The results on this spreadsheet only represent the polling stations we could back with signed and stamped v11s. We got a lot of dubious results from Mashonaland East, Central, and West. Those polling stations have been excluded.
We chose also not to even release these results in 2023 in the backdrop of the SADC report because we felt we were not in the business of legitimizing sham elections. We hoped CCC would reject the whole election in toto. Unfortunately, some decided to go to parliament and councils.
At the end of the day, I hope we all now are going to have honest conversations, now that you know a bit of what we knew.
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