2023 will certainly go down as the year that we will not easily forget. It was the year in which the country underwent an election like no other. Nothing like this has been seen even in the region. The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum deployed election observers across the country to monitor, document and report on adherence to due process and human rights violations during elections. Through its members and accredited local observers, the Forum identified, verified, and documented a number of electoral irregularities. From the delayed opening of polling stations, absence of voting material in polling stations, ballot paper anomalies, non-appearance of names on voters’ roll, contestations around night voting, voter intimidation, raids on CSO offices, and unjustified arrests of the same – the 2023 harmonized election was marred with election irregularities rendering it a topsy – turvy election devoid of integrity and constitutionalism.

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