Why parallel vote tabulation becomes a problem

IT is not surprising but indeed disheartening that independent observers were arrested under charges that the police said would be revealed in court.

When it served the interests of Zanu PF, the party was comfortable with using civil society’s parallel vote tabulation (PVT) estimates. In Zanu PF’s opposing court papers to the MDC Alliance’s 2018 court challenge, which sought the nullification of the announcement of President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the winner, the following statements were made:

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