The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has confirmed that it will create a new biometric voters' roll to replace the existing one.The commission's chairperson Justice Rita Makarau has said the commission will draft a new biometric voters' roll for 2018, reports The Herald.After registration using this new technology, a confirmation receipt would be issued by ZEC officials. What this effectively means is that for purposes of voting, names of voters would only appear on a particular polling station.”We are going to come up with a new voters' roll for 2018,” she said. “The voters' roll that we are going to use in 2018 will not make any reference to what happened in 2013.””The reason why is because the old voters' roll did not capture our biometrics. This new voters' roll captures our biometrics and is going to be very different to the old voters' roll. If you registered for 2013, but don't register for 2018, your picture will not be able to appear on the voters' roll, and your name will actually not be on the voters' roll, which is going to be polling station specific.”
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