For over a decade now Zimbabwe elections results have been rightly discredited as being fraudulent, rigged and misrepresentative of the wishes of the majority Zimbabweans. Among the most common reasons sighted in support of this negative view is the integrity of the Tobaiwa Mudede compiled voters roll that has too many errors to be acceptable as the basis of any credible electoral process.
Often cited irregularities are multiple replications of identical name entries on different Constituencies, entries of names of persons under the age of 18 years or too many entries of people above 100 years as well as existence of names of known deceased voters and too many voters resident at one address while many intending voters are turned away as their names do not appear on the voter’s roll.