The distressing incident involving @Cde_Wombe illustrates a troubling pattern. The question arises: what justified such a violent act against him? His affiliation with the opposition seems to have made him a target. This ongoing situation unfolds as individuals are targeted one by one, leaving us to wonder when these injustices will cease. The cycle of violence and intimidation continues, and those responsible for such actions must be held accountable.
#EndPoliticalViolence #JusticeForAll #StopIntimidation #AccountabilityMatters
Our goal is not to be crowned champions of insults and expletives. It is to ensure that we provide a platform for all those who felt they needed likeminded people to do something about 2030. Our agreement is to have a culture that diverges from what we have always hated - intolerance.
We are focusing on engaging and listening. We are building an army of defenders in a hostile context but we don't want our muscle memory to define what we look like. We are trying to deliberately build a movement that everyone feels comfortable to express themselves without fear of friendly fire or retribution.
We don't have all the answers nor strategies but we know some of you here have better ideas. We should be free to interrogate our ideas, heated as it may become but remain free and comfortable in disagreement.
The goal is to de-escalate all the time and remain focused on executing on the strategies we are building to resist this attempt to shred the constitution we fought hard to rewrite.
Again, if we are not the vehicle you want, ride another bus and keep moving. YOu cannot afford to do nothing right now. DO SOMETHING!!!!!
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Dear Zimbabweans and Worldwide Friends.
For nearly 2 years, I suffered in my oppressors' prison. You prayed 4 me 2 be released from the jaws of my tormentors. You made loud clamours for my release as you know that I was innocent. Yu stood with my family. I am crying as I am
The highlight of the past election was how technology disrupted ZANU PF's rigging strategy. They used ZANU PF's member register to move those who are not their members from their traditional polling stations in cities. They gerrymandered the electoral maps and then created double candidates.
In every step, @PacheduZW followed them and highlighted these discrepencies and pointed areas of focus. @zecZim refused with the voters roll. Pple didn't know where to vote & the double candidates made it so they don't know who to vote for.
A week before elections we released CredibleVote Bots on Whatsapp and Android which completely disrupted the ZEC-ZANU plan. 487 000 pple checked where & who to vote for in 5 days and 84% of these were in Hre, 10% in Byo. By our calculation, CCC wld hve potentially lost 32 seats without this.
On election day, CredibleVote had 2 war rooms. One in Mashonaland & the other Matabeleland far away cities powered by satellite internet. We deployed Meshtastic repeaters across the country to cover areas without network. Maximum range we got was 53km but repeaters made it we cld get results from 150km away. We also had MQTT servers that relayed this info to our result servers.
All this work was done by volunteers outside of CCC. The only thing we asked of CCC was that they shld have polling agents at every polling station. Then the issue of resources came up. We again built the #Mazizi platform to crowdsource from supporters & that raised $105K which was miniscule compared to the need.
This setup was novel and it was a culmination of 2yrs of planning, coding & deployment by pple who didn't have a stake in CCC. I believe ZANU PF & the State machinery never knew abt our work. They raided ZESN probably after the noise by @PacheduZW about Mandla. That did not affect the Crediblevote work at all.
Results were coming in from our network , from CCC agents and we also opened a crowd platform for anyone to send V11. In the backend we were using computer vision & language models to read V11s & sort them. There were 3 tiers of validation. Our roving agents had highest trust, then CCC agents, then the crowd.
In the first 48hrs after elections, we received & validated results from 10500 polling stations. We got a further 1600 from CCC as some agents chose to hand deliver their V11 etc...
I had a meeting with Nelson Chamisa & presented him with what we had. We had close to 350 V11s from Mash East & West which had no stamps and the agents were saying ZEC had said they didn't have stamps but ZANU PF agents were bringing stamped V11 pointing to conniving with @ZECzim
NC, said we shld wait for ZEC to release their results. Unlike in 2018, @ZECzim chose to not release their results from each polling station. They used bruteforce to ram unsubstantiated numbers to pple. The responsibility of a credible election lies on the electoral board and nobody else.
We had a debate as to whether we shld just release all the ~12100 results we had or not. The SADC report came out and it became clear that the most logical thing to do was reject the whole process & all results given the irregularities that SADC also acknowledged. I was shocked & distraught when folks chose to go parliament.
In the end, I think the gun prevailed as it always temporarily does. What we showed is that no process run by the military can ever wield a product that represents the will of the pple.
I have written this to highlight the power of volunteers, technology & commitment in challenging autocratic systems. I hope in future others will build on top of our work. I wish I cld thank all the volunteers by name but you know yourselves.
@hwendec I say we pull out completely. Form a government in exile. In the meantime, we build the economy by owning some means of production. Whoever controls the means of production has power.