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'Overseas Zim staff won't vote'
24/03/2008 14:49 - (SA)
Harare/Johannesburg - No staff from overseas Zimbabwe embassies have applied to vote by post in Saturday's presidential and parliamentary polls, an official from the state electoral commission was quoted as saying on Monday.
Only 8 000 police have applied for postal ballot papers, Utoile Silaigwana, deputy elections officer from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), said.
"This does not mean that all of them would cast their vote," Silaigwana was quoted as saying in Monday's Herald newspaper.
"We will consider their applications and see if they qualify because some of them might not be on the voters roll," he said as ZEC sealed postal ballot boxes at the weekend.
'Every trick in the book'
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he wants to know why if only 8 000 police officers are voting, 600 000 postal ballot papers have been printed.
Tsvangirai told a rally in Harare on Sunday that President Robert Mugabe, 84, would use "every trick in the book" to win Saturday's election and give himself a sixth term in office.
"We did not see (postal ballot) applications for staff from embassies; we only saw applications for the Zimbabwe Republic Police," Silaigwana said.
"As you know there is no law in Zimbabwe that compels a person to vote." - Sapa-dpa
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