Checking the results
Key Sites for Election Updates and Commentary:
Sokwanele Civic Action Support Group http://www.sokwanele.com Has detailed updates both from Zimbabwe Election Commission(official) and Parallel Voting Tabulation (unofficial)
AllAfrica http://allafrica.com/zimbabwe
Kubatana http://www.kubatana.net
SW Radio Africa http://www.swradioafrica.com
Google Maps Mashup on Election Rigging Reports http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/767
a runoff vote
Zimbabwe Election Support Network...Mugabe got 41.8 percent of the vote, compared with 49.4 percent for opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. An independent, Simba Makoni, got 8 percent...
If confirmed, the monitor group's numbers would push Mugabe and Tsvangirai into a runoff vote -- something analysts have long said would consolidate opposition to the president and hasten the end of his rule. Zimbabwe election laws require that a winning candidate get more than 50 percent of the vote. The new election likely would be April 19.
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Waiting to crush the people?
On a BBC Radio 4 interview, Martin Rupiah, ex-Zimbabwe Army colonel, now living in South Africa, commented that the slow release of the results was designed to bring out protestors out onto the street, where the loyal security forces, or certain parts of them, would crush them.
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