Munyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Bureau
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (ZEC) has registered an additional 29 266 voters during the ongoing Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) mop-up exercise.

According to statistics released by ZEC, 674 179 people had registered to vote by Tuesday in Midlands Province up from 644 913 voters who had registered by the end of the fourth phase of the exercise.

Zanu-PF Midlands provincial chairperson Engineer Daniel McKenzie Ncube said the party was embarking on a vigorous voter mobilisation exercise, encouraging its members to register to vote. Eng Ncube said the party remains confident it will mobilise more than 800 000 people to register to vote by the end of the mop-up exercise.

“As you are aware, most people in the province failed to register to vote because the issuing of national identity cards was lagging behind in many areas. The districts that were affected the most are Mberengwa, Chirumhanzu, Gokwe North and South. We are very confident that we will surpass our target voter population of 800 000,” he said.

ZEC embarked on a BVR mop-up exercise, running from January 10 to February 8, to cater for potential registrants who failed to register in the previous exercise. ZEC has since reduced its target of seven million registered voters on the BVR system to five million from a projected voter population of 7 224 129, after registering nearly 4,9 million voters in the initial blitz.

The mop-up exercise will target mostly areas where teams from the Registrar-General are deployed, particularly where national identity cards were issued after the first BVR voter registration blitz.

ZEC said the new initiative did not signal the end of the registration process, but a cut-off date that enables it to prepare a provisional voters roll. Registration is expected to continue in 63 districts across the country.

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