Doubts Hang Over Zimbabwe’s Post-Mugabe Vote

Voters grapple with concerns about rigging and violence in a contest in which incumbent president, main rival offer similar promises of economic revival

HARARE, Zimbabwe—Newton Namagowa is wrangling with a weighty question: Will his vote in Zimbabwe’s election, the first since the ouster of longtime strongman Robert Mugabe, count?

“People in Zimbabwe, there are some who still don’t think that a vote is a voice,” said Mr. Namagowa, a 35-year-old who lives in a gritty eastern corner of the capital and has been unemployed since the violent expulsion of white farmers turned his country into an international pariah in the early 2000s. “We want a new system.”

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