BAH HUMBUG...
THE ZEC'S "OFFICIAL"
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS
It has taken the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission almost five weeks to verify less than two and a half million votes that were cast in our Presidential ballot. In a country where junior school children have learnt to count, add, subtract and even multiply in millions and now billions in order to survive our collapsed economy, five weeks is insulting and highly suspicious to say the least.
After five weeks the ZEC declared the following results:
Morgan Tsvangirai 1 195 562 votes (47,9%)
Robert Mugabe
1 079 730 votes (43,2%)
Simba Makoni
207 470 votes (8,3%)
Langton Towungana
14 503 votes (0,6%)
ZEC went on to declare that since no candidate had received more than 50% of the votes cast, a run-off election must be held at a date yet to be announced.
Piechart graphic from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7382319.stm
VIOLENCE
The American Ambassador to Zimbabwe, James McGee, said he was personally recording incidents of violence and interviewing victims. Mr McGee said: "We are looking and taking note of the people responsible for the violence. Out of the 500 cases that I have handled, only one has been attributed to the MDC as an aggressor. We have affidavits; we have the names of the perpetrators. We know the perpetrators and there will be justice at the end of the day."
INFLATION
When Zimbabweans voted on 29 March, a loaf of bread cost Zim$ 7 million.
On 29 April a loaf of bread cost $Zim 40 million.
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