Monitors from Zimbabwean pro-democracy and pressure groups were arrested in multiple raids on Wednesday night and their computers and mobile phones were seized, police said.
“The equipment was being used to unlawfully tabulate election voting statistics and results from polling stations,” police said, describing the activity as “subversive and criminal”.
In dozens of polling stations, voters braved long waits for ballot papers to be delivered for the triple elections, for the presidency, legislature and municipal councils. The largest opposition Citizens Coalition for Change , which poses the biggest challenge to Mnangagwa, lashed the electoral process as “fundamentally flawed.”
Nelson Chamisa, head of the CCC, earlier slammed the delays as “a clear case of voter suppression, a classic case of Stone Age… rigging”. Ballot counting in those areas would only start on Friday, he said. Authorities are confident of announcing the results before the Tuesday deadline.The confusion was “unprecedented”, said Sara Dorman, a specialist at Scotland’s University of Edinburgh.
“The polling stations that were lacking in ballots were all in areas that are considered opposition strongholds,” she said.As a white-ruled British colony named Rhodesia, the country broke away from London in 1965, gaining independence in 1980 after a long guerrilla war and renamed Zimbabwe.
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