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[tet68]

It brings tears to your eyes to see people hunger for freedom so much.

[End Times Sentinel]

Most of those still waiting to vote in the sprawling township had spent half the night in the queue although polling booths only opened at 07:00.

"I arrived here at 03:00. I have sent for blankets because I am not leaving this place without voting. I am prepared to sleep here," said one voter who gave only her first name as Maidei.

Another determined auto electrician exclaimed: "Come rain, come thunder, I am going to vote."

Boy, these people must REALLY love Mugabe to want to support him this way. I’ll bet he gets 80% of the vote.

I must consider a trip to Rhodesia, to invest in one of these farms I’ve heard so much about…

Owl _ Eagle
“Guns before butter.”

[Slyfox]

Zimbabwe is where we in the US would have been had it not been
for our Constitution and judges willing and able to defend it.

[Logophile]

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has accused the government of President Robert Mugabe of reducing the number of urban polling stations by some 40% in a bid to frustrate its supporters.

"Don't worry about coming to the polls to vote -- we have already marked your ballot for you!"

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Another determined auto electrician exclaimed: "Come rain, come thunder, I am going to vote." Other hungry voters complained that they could not leave the queue to go and get food, because if they did leave the Mbuya Nehanda hall grounds, police would not let them back in.

Dorcas Zifambi, said she had left a seven-month-old breastfeeding baby at home at 03:00 hoping she would return home within reasonable time to attend to her child. Eleven hours later she had not yet cast her ballot and had not been back home.

Susan Gamunorwa, 60, who suffers from asthma and diabetes was lying on the ground next to the queue, saying she was feeling weak as she had not had recourse to either medication nor food. Another woman said she had left her very ill sister at home who needed constant monitoring and was worried about her condition as she had not been fed.

BUMP!