Functions of Zimbabwe Electoral Commission

239 Functions of Zimbabwe Electoral Commission The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has the following functions — (a) to prepare for, conduct and supervise — (i) elections to the office of President and to Parliament; (ii) elections to provincial and metropolitan councils and the governing “bodies of local authorities; (iii) elections of members of the National Council of Chiefs established by section 285: and (iv) referendums; and to ensure that those elections and referendums are conducted efficiently, freely, fairly, transparently and in accordance with the law: (b) to supervise elections of the President of the Senate and the Speaker and to ensure that those elections are conducted efficiently and in accordance with the law; (c) to register voters; (d) to compile voters’ rolls and registers; {e} toensure the proper custody and maintenance of voters’ rolls and registers; (f) to delimit constituencies, wards and other electoral boundaries; (g) to design, print and distribute ballot papers, approve the form of and procure ballot boxes, and establish and operate polling centres; (h) to conduct and supervise voter education; (i) to accredit observers of elections and referendums; (j) to give instructions to persons in the employment of the State or of a local authority for the purpose of ensuring the efficient, rec, fair, proper and transparent conduct of any election or referendum, and (k) to receive and consider complaints from the public and to take such action in regard to the complaints as it considers appropriate.