{"id":1556,"date":"2018-04-03T07:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wozazim.org\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2018-04-03T07:46:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:46:34","slug":"matabeleland-situation-room-statement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/?p=1556","title":{"rendered":"Matabeleland Situation Room Statement 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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31 July 2013 Situation Room Press Statement \u2013 2pm
\nVoting Issues (voting irregularities, voter integrity, identification issues)
\nI.\tSpecial Voting issues-Chief Assembly Polling Station, Umguza: About 400\u2014500 uniformed and plain clothes police in queues as special voters, possible intimidation and slowing down process
\nII.\tGwanda Ward 1: Police in the queue but do not appear on voter\u2019s roll
\nIII.\tStanley Hall and St. Patricks Primary School: Separate queues for Special Voters, slowing down the voting process.
\nIV.\tVoters Registration identity details appearing in more than 1 ward\u2019s voters\u2019 roll, thus risks of double voting
\nV.\tRegistered Voters turned away for various reasons; not appearing on the voters\u2019 roll among other issues. Magwegwe Creche most registered voters were turned away for not appearing on the voters\u2019 roll, issue resolved at around 0900hrs
\nVI.\tInkuba Pry School in Nkayi North, voting proceeding but no means to check Special Voters and Ink detector without batteries
\nVII.\tKoDlamini, Mbuhulu, Tsholotsho 100 people voted by 1000hrs; 4 people turned away, 1 registered in another ward and the other 3 without proof of registration.<\/p>\n

ZEC staffing Issues
\nI.\tUnverified: Umguza Ward 19 Nyamandlovu Primary school, polling officers teaching people to vote behind the polling booth
\nII.\tVoting very slow at Mhali Primary School with one copy of Voters\u2019 Roll and voters are surprised at the number of elderly people in the queue who have not brought their own assistants thus having to be assisted, Mazwi primary school in Magwegwe and Paddonhurst Centre.<\/p>\n

Polling Station Administration (opening\/closing times)
\nI.\tHlangabeza Secondary Sch, Nkayi South: Ink has not yet arrived, voting not yet started as at 0900hrs
\nII.\tNumber 1 Iminyela Polling Station, Ward 12 Helemu Primary School opened were delayed, Pelandaba Hall opened at 7.30am, Makokoba opened at 7.15am at JB Shopping Centre.
\nIII.\tSengezane polling station in Gwanda central \u2013 ballot boxes and ballot booths were not on site by 6.30am.
\nIV.\tNtepe, Gwanda central ward 14 no ballot boxes at polling station at 6am
\nV.\tPolling stations varying in terms of lengths of queues. Some polling stations with long queues some with short queues within the same constituency. (issue of inadequate advertising of polling stations)
\nVI.\tDatata primary school in ward 2 Gwanda \u2013 police officer inside polling station at 7.43am.
\nVII.\tThere are two voting points at Amhlophe high school and polling station opened at 7.30am. 6 police officers outside polling station.
\nVIII.\tFilabusi primary school polling station opened late at 7.30am.
\nIX.\tNewton West at Jocks supermarket polling station. First person to vote at 7.20am.
\nX.\tLighting in Tents: Northend and Tshabalala Extension, Joks Tent in Newton West \u2013 it is dark inside the tent.<\/p>\n

Security Issues (intimidation issues, harassments, fear and tension)
\nI.\tMany polling stations report police officer inside the polling stations, e.g Datata Pry Sch in Gwanda, Ward 2, Bulawayo Ingubo Pry Sch A, Ward 2
\nPositive Issues
\nI.\tNkankezi primary school polling station in lobengula ward 14 opened at 7am. Ballot papers were there by 7am. All party polling agents present. Polling officials 95 men and 5 women)
\nII.\tMagwegwe ward 29 opened at 7am.
\nIII.\tElderly people being assisted by people of their choice <\/p>\n

Other Issues
\nI.\tPosters within 50m radius of polling stations, e.g Ntshamathe Pry, @ 0715 posters not yet removed from about 50m from polling station gate. Insiza beer garden posters were removed after 7.00am under police supervision.
\nII.\tCouncil Candidates for Gwanda ward 1 and ward 10 reportedly denied time to analyze voters\u2019 roll on the 30th of July, 2013
\nIII.\tSome political parties with more than one agent in each polling station, e.g. in a polling station in Nketa, 3 agents requested two to be inside and one to be \u2018turned\u2019 into an observer.<\/p>\n

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31 July 2013 Situation Room Press Statement \u2013 2pm Voting Issues (voting irregularities, voter integrity, identification issues) I. Special Voting issues-Chief Assembly Polling Station, Umguza: About 400\u2014500 uniformed and plain clothes police in queues as special voters, possible intimidation and slowing down process II. Gwanda Ward 1: Police in the queue but do not … Continue reading Matabeleland Situation Room Statement 2<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}