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MDC sets up voters' roll "hotline"

    JOHANNESBURG

    Meanwhile, the MDC said that would set up a voters' roll "hotline" for people that had been left off the voters' roll, news reports said.

    MDC's election director Paul Nyathi, said during a press conference in Harare that telephone "hotlines" had been set up to receive complaints from people whose names had been omitted from the list.

    "This morning alone (Wednesday) in our Harare office we received 100 calls from individuals in and around Harare whose names do not appear on the voters' roll," Nyathi said.

    "We are receiving increasing reports from whites and young black people - mostly aged 20-28 - that they are not on the voters' roll," Morgan Tsvangirai, the president of the MDC said. "They have deliberately left off thousands of young people, precisely the sort of people who are the MDC's most ardent supporters," he added.

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