Dead people still on voters’ roll

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has publicly admitted for the first time that there are dead people on the voters’ roll especially in rural constituencies.

Previous commissions have always denied that dead people were on the voters’ roll, but in an interview with NewsDay on the sidelines of a voter education consultative workshop in Harare yesterday, ZEC deputy chairperson Joyce Laetitia Kazembe admitted the voters’ roll needed cleaning up.

Kazembe said chances of some dead people being on the roll in the next election remained high, given that deceased persons had to be first declared dead before they were deregistered as voters.

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