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Voter List Inflation Arises, Officials Fear Planned Voter Fraud Will Play Out in Zimbabwe

Voter List Inflation Arises, Officials Fear Planned Voter Fraud Will Play Out in Zimbabwe

From ABC News

Zimbabwean state election officials are dramatically inflating the numbers of electors on new voters’ lists months ahead of crucial polls, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party alleged Tuesday.

It said lists in some voting districts swelled by more than 10,000 names in a 48-hour period, or the addition of about 150 voters a second.

“This is just impossible,” said party official Douglas Mwonzora. He said a copy of one Harare district list was obtained on a Monday earlier this month. Two days later, a revised copy showed an additional 11,890 voters on the list.

In other districts the names of active party members were missing or misspelled, making them ineligible to vote, raising fears of voting fraud being planned by officials loyal to President Robert Mugabe’s party, he said.

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