In an extra-ordinary Government gazette General Notice 193
of 2024 published on February 9, ZEC, Chief Elections Officer, Mr Utloile
Silaigwana said the names of people appearing on the schedule will be removed
from the voters’ roll unless a notice of appeal is given to the Commission.
The removal of deceased persons is a continuous process
that the Commission has always been doing when it receives a list of deceased
persons from the Civil Registry Department.
“It is hereby notified, in terms of section 33(4) read with
Section 27(1) of the Electoral Act [Chapter 2:13], that voter registration
officers have reason to believe that the persons whose names are listed in the
First Schedule, and who were registered as voters for the constituencies, wards
and polling stations listed therein have died.
“The names of those persons will be removed from the
voters’ roll unless notice of appeal is given to the Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission,” reads the notice.
“By means of this notice, notification is made to any voter
on the First Schedule who may be alive to lodge an objection at the Zimbabwe
Electoral Commission Mahachi Quantum, 1, Nelson Mandela Avenue, corner Kaguvi
Street and Jason Moyo Avenue, Harare, and at the respective Commission
Provincial Offices, to the inclusion of his or her name in the First Schedule
using the form prescribed in the Second Schedule no later than seven (7) days
from the date of publication of this notice.”
ZEC regularly and routinely removes dead voters from the
roll as data from the Registrar-General is made available from the lists of
people who have been certified as dead.
The regular house cleaning is done to ensure that no one
can try and vote using identity particulars belonging to a dead person whom
they might physically resemble, although ID cards are supposed to be
surrendered to the authorities when a death is reported. Chronicle
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