Voting method

ELECTORAL ACT (Acts 25/2004, 17/2007, 1/2008)

71. Applications for postal ballot papers

(1) When an election is to take place in a constituency, a voter ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe who is resident in that constituency, or was, within twelve months preceding the polling day or first polling day, as the case may be, fixed in relation to that constituency resident therein and has good reason to believe that he or she will be absent from the constituency or unable to attend at the polling station by reason of being:

(a) on duty as a member of a disciplined force or as an electoral officer or monitor; or

(b) absent from Zimbabwe in the service of the Government of Zimbabwe; or

(c) a spouse of a person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b);

may apply to the Chief Elections Officer for a postal ballot paper:

Provided that applications for postal ballot papers by members of a disciplined force may be made to the Chief Elections Officer through their commanding officers.