Ward 3 - has very long queues, no voters have been turned away yet. No evidence of violence or intimidation. |
Ward 4 & 8 - People voted in the morning, and since then there have been no people coming to vote, presumably because they are hotel employees and are at work. |
Ward 7 & 9 - There were no people coming in to vote |
Ward 11 - has a very long queue approx 100 people voting, ZEC doing a good job – It takes 5 minutes for each person to vote |
WARD 3 – The polling station had run out of ballot papers by 1000hrs. The Presiding Officer had said he was expecting papers to be flown in. This ward has mostly white residents and some voters had given up standing in the queue. Ward Three has so far the highest number of voters turning up to vote. |
1:10 pm - The additional ballot papers that had been requested for Ward 3 at 1000hrs are only just arriving at the Airport. It is said it will take another 20mins for the papers to arrive at the Polling station. Reports coming in say that MDC and MDC Tsvangirai yesterday queried the number of ballot papers that had been allocated (100) in relation to the number of registered voters (195). |