Calls for Zimbabwe to adopt Biometric voters’ registration

Political commentators and Civil Society Organizations back MDC-T’s call for Zimbabwe to adopt a new voters’ roll for forthcoming elections (The Zimbabwean via SW Radio Africa)

Tobaiwa Mudede is the Registrar-General in the inclusive government and has been in that position since the early 1980’s. He has been criticized by international human rights organizations for falsifying and manipulating the voters roll to ensure Robert Mugabe’s ‘electoral victories’ against the MDC.

It’s been reported that a South African based company has provided quotation of $20 million for biometric voter registration for the whole of Zimbabwe.

The latest MDC demands come in the wake of revelations by independent election watchdog, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network, that the voters’ roll is full of dead people and includes names of children, some as young as four years.

In developing countries, biometric identity management systems are frequently seen as a means to reign in corrupt and abusive governments.