8 HH 307-18 HC 4863/18 ERC urges the ZEC to appreciate the importance of sharing the provisional voter’s roll with stakeholders in the spirit of transparency and accountability, and in pursuit of verifiability of the work being undertaken on the voter’s roll. These efforts will contribute significantly to building public confidence and enhancing the credibility of our elections. ERC therefore requests a copy of the provisional voter’s roll that will be availed for inspection starting on the 19th of May 2018 once it is ready. The document will be used to support ZEC in finalizing a credible voter’s roll for our 2018 harmonized elections. The document once provided, will be used as a reference point to track any changes that will be made to data contained in order final voter’s roll. Your favourable consideration of our request would be appreciated. Yours sincerely, Tawanda Chimhini Executive Director The respondent responded to the applicant’s letter on 8 May 2018. The applicant received the response on 11 May 2018. It is convenient and in order to lay bare the paper and parties interaction trail, to reproduce the letter. It reads as follows Ref B/17/589 08 May, 2018 The Executive Director Election Resource Cnetre 3 Dacomb Drive Chisipite Harare RE: REQUEST FOR PROVISIONAL VOTERS ROLLS Your undated letter regarding the above subject matter refers. We regret to advise that at this juncture the Commission is unable to accede to your request for a copy of the Provisional Voters Roll. Kindly be advised that the production of the voters roll is an on-going process especially because the voters roll has not yet been closed for purposes of the harmonized election. As such the Commission would not want to confuse stakeholders by providing copies at this early juncture. However, once the provisional roll is ready for inspection, the various polling station voters rolls will be made available for those persons who, for one reason or the other will be able to present themselves physically at the inspection centres for inspection. We trust that you will take advantage of these opportunities to scrutinize the provisional voters roll as you so wish and hopefully share with us your findings in order for us to make good any issues requiring amendment.