Some 250 000 ghost voters have been unearthed on the voters roll, according to experts. Newsday reports that an independent team of BV...
Some 250 000 ghost voters have been unearthed on the voters
roll, according to experts.
Newsday reports that an independent team of BVR, electoral
administration, human rights and data science experts who sifted through the
roll claimed that they unearthed several discrepancies, indicating that over
250 000 ghost voters were on the roll.
But Zec chairperson Priscilla Chigumba yesterday dismissed
the findings as “fictitious”.
“Several techniques were used to sift/dig through all the 5
683 936 records in the voters’ roll. The key goal being to establish the level
of credibility that could be ascribed to the voters roll,” the BVR experts said
in a report shown to NewsDay yesterday.
“One of the key concerns that have emerged is the existence
of both double registrants and the high possibility of ghost voters in the
roll. Both scenarios were, ordinarily, not expected given that the Electoral
Commission used the most sophisticated BVR system to capture voters data. At
the time of writing, the number of red-flagged entries basing on all techniques
used stood at 250 000,” read part of the findings.
The high number of irregularities unearthed showed
duplication of identity numbers with different names, or slight changes to
spellings, similar ID numbers and in some instances, the same person registered
at different polling stations in the same constituency.
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