TellZim reporter
A total of 2 296 new voter registrants were recorded during the month of July in Masvingo according to statistics released by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) provincial office.
ZEC Deputy Elections Officer Maxwell Ncube confirmed the statistics on August 2, 2022.
“The figures are going up of course because when I went through the statistics, those for the month of July were much higher as compared to the previous month that is June. The percentage increase is around 64.1 for initial registrations but transfers rose sharply with 198 percent during the month of July,” said Ncube.
He said these transfers are within the province though some few voters would be moving out due to other reasons like transfers by employers.
“Some people are transferring from one point to the other within the province though in some cases we have had cases of transfer out of the province. Though these cases maybe few, some of them are prompted by transfers at work. Usually teachers are among those moving from one province to the other.
“The transfers are not limited to a particular timeframe for now but that will be done two days after proclamation of the election date by the President,” he added.
Ncube also said the delimitation process is yet to be embarked on though he said the inspection and clean-up of the voters’ roll has been done to pave way for the exercise.
“As for delimitation, we were on the clean-up and inspection of the voters’ roll to ensure that every voter is at the right polling station and constituency to which he/she belongs so that we come up we come up with actual statistics when we announce the statistics for the province, we can be able to give the correct figures,” Ncube added.
Of the new registered voters 1 207 are men while 1 089 are women. On the transfers list, a total of 2 157 voters among them 1 190 female and 769 men were recorded.
In June, 1 398 people registered to vote with 779 males and 619 females. From a total of 723 transfers, 365 were men while 358 were women.
