BHUNU J: The applicant Jameson Timba and the respondent Jason Passade and one Peter Muchadamano were conte~tants for the Mount Pleasant Constituency Parliamentary seat in the recent Harmonised National Assembly Elections held on 31 July 2013. The Mount Pleasant Constituency is made up of 2 wards being wards 7 and 17.
The applicant herein (Matambanadzo), standing on a ZANU-PF ticket in the harmonised elections held on 31 July, 2013 for the Kwekwe Central Constituency, beat the respondent herein (Chebundo} who was standing on an MDC-T ticket.
Aggrieved by the electoral outcome, Chebundo filed an electoral petition under cover of case number E. C 34/13 seeking the following relief:
"1. lt is declared that Respondent was not duly elected as a member of the House of
BE PLEASED TO TAKE NOTICE THAT an Application is hereby made to the Constitutional Court for an order in terms of the order/draft order annexed to this application on the grounds that:-
a) The Applicant was a candidate in the presidential election held on the 31st of July 2013.
b) 1st Respondent was declared the winner of that election on Saturday 03 August 2013.
I, the undersigned,, MORGAN RICHARD TSVANGIRAI do hereby make oath and state that:
1. It is with deep regret and sadness that I find myself having to depose to this affidavit, which I present for purposes of explaining the reasons behind the withdrawal of the Election Petition just filed by my legal practitioners at my specific instance.
2. It is common cause that I filed a Petition challenging the outcome of the Presidential Election in tenns of its processes and outcome.
IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF ZIMBABWE Constitutional Application No. CCZ 71113 In the matter between:
MORGAN TSVANGIRAI APPLICANT and ROBERT GABRIEL MUGABE 1st RESPONDENT and ZIMBABWE ELECTORAL COMMISSION 2nd RESPONDENT and RITA MAKARAU N.O. 3rd RESPONDENT and
WHEREUPON, after reading documents filed of record and hearing counsel in this application/petition made in terms of section 93(1) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe,
And thereafter, that is to say, TUESDAY the 20th day of AUGUST 2013
Creation of a voter list that is a "voter registry" independent from other registries (such as, the civil registry) involves collection of voter data by election authorities. However, rarely is an independent registry truly independent.