The general elections in Zimbabwe are going ahead in about a week's time.
This after the opposition failed to obtain an up-to-date voters' roll from the Zimbabwe Election Commission .
Makone had sought a directive for the ZEC to provide an up-to-date copy of the voters' roll and a final list of polling stations.Denial of access to the voters' roll has dented the credibility of elections in Zimbabwe since the turn of the millennium, and it is destined to be the same once more. The CCC legal team had since requested an"audience before the judge on the question of urgency", according to a letter from CCC lawyers to the Registrar of the Electoral Division of the High Court.
There are many new polling stations and thousands of voters have been moved to different polling stations. in the voters' roll given to parties last month, for example, the recycling of identification numbers, with thousands of identity cards linked to individuals in the 2013 elections now associated with different names in 2023.
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