Outside monitors, dictator Mugabe mean important Zimbabwe vote to opposition government possible

Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Zimbabweans brave cold to vote in large numbers

AFP – Wrapped in blankets, Zimbabweans braved chilly weather Wednesday and turned up in droves to vote in a fiercely contested presidential election. Voters started lining up outside polling stations in the darkness of winter, hours before voting opened. Zimbabweans wait to cast their votes in presidential and parliamentary elections in Harare, Wednesday, July, 31. One enormous and largely invisible voter cohort that will not be represented are the some 4 million Zimbabwe refugees.