ELECTION WATCH 22/2018
11th June 2018
ZEC’s Elections Roadmap
Roadmap for 2018 Harmonised Elections
Ser No. | Task Name/Task Mode | Duration | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Start | Finish | |||
1 | PROCLAMATION OF ELECTION | 1 day | May 30 | May 30 |
2 | Production of Voters Rolls for Nomination | 9 days | June 2 | June 10 |
3 | Submission of specimen signatures by political parties | 10 days | June 3 | June 12 |
4 | Preparation of Voters’ Rolls for Nomination Court (Stand Alone) | 5 days | June 7 | June 11 |
5 | Publication of Nomination Court Venues and Nomination Officers | 1 day | June 7 | June 7 |
6 | Training and Deployment of Voter Educators for Nom. | 1 day | June 8 | June 8 |
7 | Voter Education for Nomination Court | 5 days | June 9 | June 13 |
8 | Publication for Call of Observers | 1 day | June 9 | June 9 |
9 | Training of Media Monitoring Committees and | 3 days | June 10 | June 12 |
10 | Decentralization of Accreditation Committee Teams | 1 day | June 10 | June 10 |
11 | Establishment of Media Monitoring Committee | 1 day | June 10 | June 10 |
12 | Accreditation of Observers for Poll | 50 days | June 10 | July 30 |
13 | Appointment of Constituency Elections Officers | 1 day | June 11 | June 11 |
14 | Establishment of the National, Prov. Dist. Logistics committee | 1 day | June 12 | June 12 |
15 | Publication of Decentralised Accreditation Centres | 1 day | June 12 | June 12 |
16 | Nomination Court Training and Set Up | 2 days | Jun 12 | June 13 |
17 | Issuance of Postal Vote application forms | 8 days | June 14 | June 21 |
18 | NOMINATION COURT DAY | 1 day | June 14 | June 14 |
19 | Inspection of the Nomination Papers by the pubic | 1 day | June 15 | June 15 |
20 | Establishment of Multi party Liaison Committee | 3 days | June 16 | June 17 |
21 | Submission of Nomination Court results by Provinces | 2 days | June 17 | June 18 |
22 | Publication of the Nomination court results | 1 day | June 25 | June 25 |
23 | Gazetting of Constituency elections Officers and their addresses | 1 Day | June 28 | June 28 |
24 | Closure of Receipt of Postal Vote Applications (need to advise applicants for Postal to do it much earlier to avoid delays) | 1 Day | June 28 | June 28 |
25 | Processing and Dispatch of Postal Votes | 8 days | June 29 | July 6 |
26 | Observer Briefing | 1 day | July 7 | July 7 |
27 | Publication of Polling stations | 1 day | July 10 | July 10 |
28 | Election of Council of Chiefs | 1 day | July 11 | July 11 |
29 | Training of Supervisors for VE for Polling | 2 days | July 12 | July 13 |
30 | Training and Deployment of Voter Educators for Polling | 2 days | July 15 | July 16 |
31 | Processing of Postal Votes by Chief Elections Officer | 6 days | July 16 | July 21 |
32 | Close of Receipt of Postal Vote Ballots by Chief Elections Officer | 1 day | July 16 | July 16 |
33 | Voter Education for Polling | 7 days | July 17 | July 23 |
34 | Training of Presiding Officers & WEOs | 8 days | July 17 | July 23 |
35 | Election of President and Deputy President of the Chief’s Council | 1 day | 18 July | 18 July |
36 | Observer Briefing Before Poll Day | 1 day | July 23 | July 23 |
37 | Publication of Ballot Papers Printed | 1 day | July 23 | July 23 |
38 | Command Centres – Set up (Results Collation) Broadcasting Screen, Observer Rooms, Journalist Rooms, Commission B/Room ICT Collation Room | 5 days | July 24 | July 28 |
39 | Training of Polling Officers | 2 days | July 25 | July 26 |
40 | Dispatch of Postal Votes to the Polling Stations | 2 days | July 27 | July 28 |
41 | Deployment for Polling | 2 days | July 27 | July 28 |
42 | Publication of Polling Stations | 1 day | July 30 | July 30 |
43 | ELECTION DAY | 1 day | July 30 | July 30 |
44 | Transmission of Results Collation of Presidential Results Announcement of Presidential Results | 5 days | July 31 | August 4 |
45 | Calculation of Proportional Seats: Senators, Provincial Council, National Assembly Women Quota | 5 days | July 31 | August 4 |
46 | Decamping | 10 days | July 31 | Aug 09 |
47 | Election of 16 Provincial Chiefs to be Senators | 1 day | August 1 | August 1 |
48 | Election of PWDs Representatives 2 days After Poll | 1 day | August 2 | August 2 |
49 | Verification, Publication and Gazetting of Results | 10 days | Aug 4 | Aug 13 |
