Opposition Alleges Fraud in Zimbabwe Polls

On Thursday Aug 1,2013,Zimbabwean Prime Minister and leader of  Movement for Change Morgan Tsvangirai said it would not accept the Zimbabwe presidential election results alleging serious violations and described the election as “heavily manipulated” and directed a number of allegations against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, particularly regarding the preparation and authentication of the voters roll, the overprinting of ballot papers, and the bungled election for policemen and security services. He also accused the ZANU (PF) of bussing voters from the countryside into the city and using village headmen to intimidate voters

The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), a civil society organization that deployed over 7,000 observers across the country, claimed that close to 1 million urban voters had been disenfranchised in this election

The MDC’s claims were contradicted by the observer mission of the Electoral Commissions Forum of the Southern African Development Community (SADC-ECF) that commended the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission for overseeing a “peaceful credible and efficient electoral process”. In a press conference, SADC-ECF’s Notemba Tjipueja said that their team comprised of 25 observers largely confined to urban centres

The African Union's(AU) observer mission chief has declared Zimbabwe's elections free and credible.
The AU said on Friday Aug 2,2013 it was reserving its judgment on whether the country's presidential and general elections were systematically flawed until details of the disputed vote were clarified.
President Robert Mugabe's party has claimed to have won Wednesday's elections, but his rival Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's prime minister, called the poll a "huge farce", amid allegations of electoral irregularities and manipulation.