Zimbabwe Electoral Commission - Official Functions

Official Functions

• Preparing for, conducting and supervising all Elections in Zimbabwe and referendums.
• Ensuring that elections are free, fair, transparent, and perfectly in accordance with the law.
• Directing and controlling voter registration.
• Gathering voters rolls and registers
• Guarding and maintaining voters rolls and registers.
• Designing and distributing ballot papers, setting up ballot boxes and placing polling stations.
• Supervising the registration of voters under the Electoral Law
• delimiting Electoral Boundaries.
• Instructing the registrar general of voters of his functions under the law.
• Instructing employees of the state or local authorities of their responsibilities in ensuring free, fair, proper, and fair conduct in any elections or referendums.
• Providing voter education which is:
  • accurate, adequate and not biased to any political party or candidate
  • in compliance with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission act
  • is not carried out by any foreign organization of any kind (any local Zimbabwean person may be appointed to carry out voter education, although the materials used are approved by the ZEC, in order to ensure impartiality, uniformity and suitability)
• Keeping the public informed about:
  • the demarcation of constituencies and other electoral boundaries
  • All candidates and affiliated political parties contesting an election, and supporting or opposing any question put to a referendum
  • Voting and the results of votes, and all matters concerning the work of the commission as well as the electoral process.
  • The exercise of any other function imposed on the commission by acts of parliament.