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In Nkayi, Matabeleland North province, dozens of villagers are shunning the ongoing voter registration exercise because they fear that biometric voting machines will spy on their secret votes.
(The CB News), NKAYI— In Nkayi, Matabeleland North province, dozens of villagers are shunning voter registration because they fear that biometric voting machines will spy on their secret votes.
With little knowledge about the new voting system, most villagers — who have only been introduced to the electronic voting system recently — through the ongoing Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) believe information which they provide to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commision(ZEC) during registration is not safe.
To make matters worse, villagers are receiving information indicating that even their votes will be spied by the BVR machines. Electronic voter registration has recently been introduced in Zimbabwe to address duplicate voting which opposition parties claim is caused by the old paper voter's role which is littered with 'dead' voters.
Zimbabwe has been using paper and ink since 1980, a voting system which most old voters are familiar with.
"Villagers in Sebhumane and Somthanyelo, Nkayi North Constituency are already being told that BVR machines will detect how they voted and that this party has their photos, fingerprints as well as addresses," Desire Moyo, a local activist posted on his Facebook timeline yesterday confirming reports about BVR misinformation in rural communities.
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