Factsheet - What you cannot do at a polling station - ZimFact
Ngoni Mhuruyengwe
August 21, 2023
Zimbabwe holds its general election on Wednesday, August 23 from 7am to 7pm, with voting designated to take place at 12,374 polling stations around the country. This factsheet outlines what voters can, and cannot do in and around the polling station.
After voting people are not allowed to hang around a polling station. However, the regulations allow for people to be at least 300 metres away but not in crowds. Under sweeping national law and order statutes, the police can separately remove people from situations deemed to be a threat to the maintenance of peace.
The Electoral Act states, in Section 90, that any person who, without lawful excuse, refuses or fails to leave a polling station when lawfully required to do so by the presiding officer shall be guilty of an offense and liable to a fine … or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
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