Citizens Coalition of Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has expressed serious concern over reports of polling stations that are said to have not yet started with voting, by the time of the voting deadline in Zimbabwe on Wednesday evening.
Addressing the media at a press confeference in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, Chamisa said soon after the 19h00 deadline, polling agents should have already started with the counting of votes.
He accused officials of “rendering the vote vulnerable to machinations and dark forces that operate at night.”
“That is my problem with the Harare vote and the rural vote. We were supposed to be counting, but now people are still talking of voting,” he said.
He added that, while urging his supporters to be at polling stations during the night, to “protect and secure their votes”, the election outcome had already been contaminated by the delays.
In the meantime, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has so far blamed the delays on court cases which it said resulted in a delay to print ballot papers.
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