Report Finds Third of Zimbabwe Registered Voters Dead

Posted on January 21, 2011

In anticipation of Zimbabwe’s next election, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network delved into voter registration documents, hoping to prevent widespread fraud. The results uncovered by the group were less than promising, showing that up to 1/3 of Zimbabwe’s 5.5 million registered voters were actually deceased. Read more about the group’s findings here.

The future of Zimbabwe’s political system was on the minds of many narrators whose stories are told in our most recent title Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives. To learn more about the book, and to read an excerpt from Zimbabwean political activist Alice’s narrative, just click here.

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