This is an article written by one of our researchers which appeared in The Independent (Zimbabwe) on 27 Jul 2012.
The official figures released by ZEC for the results Presidential run-off election of June 2008 indicated that Robert Mugabe had garnered approximately one million more votes than he had during the first round of voting just three months earlier. Yet according to ZEC the voter turnout, was exactly as it had been in March - around 42% of the registered voters.
