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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The Government has released $3 billion to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) for the 26 March 2022 National Assembly and council by-elections.<\/p>\n

ZEC spokesperson Joyce Kazembe said the printing of ballot papers has been completed while the training of polling officers, who will conduct the elections, will start on Monday.<\/p>\n

Ballot papers will be distributed to voting centres later this week, with the deployment of polling officers to polling stations set to be done on Thursday. Said Kazembe:<\/p>\n

We are well prepared for the by-elections, everything is in place and we are well funded.<\/p>\n

Printing of the ballot papers was completed and training of polling officers will begin on Monday while deployment will be done on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Each polling station will be allocated not more than 1 000 voters, so if a polling station has more than 1 000 voters there will be additional units created to ensure that there are only 1000 voters at each polling station.<\/p>\n

The list of voters at each polling station will be displayed at each polling station three days before the voting day so that voters will have a chance to view their particulars days before voting.<\/p>\n

\u2026 We have been given enough funds for the by-elections, we were allocated $3 billion for the exercise so everything is in place.<\/p>\n

ZEC said it will establish 1 317 polling stations for the National Assembly by-elections and 1 031 polling centres for the council polls.<\/p>\n

The by-elections will be held on Saturday to replace MPs and councillors who have either died, were redeployed or recalled.<\/p>\n

Polling stations will open at 7 am and close at 7 pm.<\/p>\n

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