"There is massive doctoring of evidence," MDC lawyer charged - true but cannot prove it with no voters' roll P Guramatunhu

Let me say it again, these elections were rigged and the only way to have stopped the rigging was by implementing the democratic reforms designed to take away Zanu PF’s carte blanche powers to rig the elections and hide the evidence.

"There is a massive cover-up. There has been a massive doctoring of evidence," Thabani Mpofu, representing the MDC, told the Con-Court.

"There were at least 16 polling stations with identical results - identical result for Chamisa, identical results for Mnangagwa. It is like a kid who was playing with the figures," said Mpofu.

Well that sure looks suspicious and this is not the first time we have seen this. In the 2013 elections, similar results were noted with many polling stations recording the same number of cast votes plus or minus a handful of votes. This was the year the number of polling stations was increased from 2 000 to a staggering 9 000, 350% increase, just two days before voting day.

In the 2013 elections, Zanu PF had bussed many of its supporters from one polling station to the next casting multiple votes, hence the need to increase the number of polling stations by a staggering 350% and why so many stations had similar numbers of cast votes. It was impossible to prove Zanu PF had bussed its supporters around casting multiple votes because there was no clean and verified voters’ roll from which to ascertain who the voters were.

The voters’ roll was the smoking gun without which it was near impossible to prove anything!    

This year the number of polling stations was increased even further to over 11 000, 450% increase compared to all the past elections right up to the 2008. Most telling of all, ZEC has once again failed to produce a clean and verified voters’ roll.

“Morgan Tsvangirai made the stupid mistake of going into the 2013 elections with no verified voters’ roll.” Chamisa admitted. “I will not make the same mistake!”

Surprise, surprise, he did. Even today, ZEC cannot produce a definitive, clean and verified voters’ roll for the just ended 2018elections!

Ask why the elections were held without any verified voters’ roll and the drag-net will land a bug catch.

ZEC knew that it was required by law to produce a verified voters’ roll at least one month before nomination day. Why has it failed to do so to this day?

It is inconceivable that all the judges and magistrates who presided over the nomination process were not aware that ZEC had not produced the voters’ roll and that nomination was going ahead with the roll. After all they were there to confirm that each prospective candidate’s nomination forms were dually signed by voters on the voters’ roll. So the nomination courts were aware of ZEC’s failure but turned a blind eye.

President Mnangagwa and his junta cabinet and parliament were also aware that ZEC did not have a clean voters’ roll and they too failed to flag this up.

Nelson Chamisa and his opposition team were aware there was no verified voters’ roll but were being “stupidity” by his own admission to ignore it.

If the Con-Court judges were serious about their search for justice, they will no doubt ask ZEC why it failed to produce a verified voters’ roll. The chances are, that the Judges will not do any such thing. After all one of the nine judges, Justice Rita Makarau, herself a former ZEC chairperson February 2013 to December 2017, failed to produce a verified voters’ roll for 2013 elections.

The honourable thing to have done here was Justice Rita Makarau should have excuse herself from the bench, given it was her who was heading ZEC for the most part of the last five years to this year’s elections.

MDC lawyers are facing a real challenge to convince the Con-Court that presidential vote was rigged given there is no voters’ roll, the smoking gun, and that not only ZEC, Zanu PF, the nomination courts and their only client, Nelson Chamisa and his MDC Alliance friends, all connived in this this treasonous act.  voters’ roll. did not know that ZEC did not produce a verified voters.

So MDC is wasting time and money on a case they are likely to lose and, worst of all, will change nothing even if they won the case.   

Zanu PF blatantly rigged these elections to gain the 2/3 majority in parliament, the current court case is challenging the results of the presidential and will not change Zanu PF’s parliamentary majority. With the parliamentary majority Zanu PF is therefore a force to reckon with in Zimbabwe regardless what happens in the presidential race. We are stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical regime no matter what.

As a people we should focus all our energy on making sure the democratic reforms are implemented and the next elections, whenever they happen, are finally free, fair and credible. Until we break the cycle of rigged elections, this country is going nowhere!