Harare - Zimbabwe's High Court, ruling in favour of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, has ordered the government to allow people to vote in any constituency in a presidential election in March, the Daily News said on Saturday.
"High Court Judge Rita Makarau ordered Tobaiwa Mudede, the registrar-general, to allow people to vote anywhere in the country and not necessarily in their constituencies as decreed by the government," the privately owned newspaper said.
Tsvangirai, leader of the main opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), poses the biggest challenge to President Robert Mugabe's 22 years in power in the March ballot.
In her ruling on Friday, the judge ordered Mudede to compile a common voters' roll in time for the March 9-10 vote, the newspaper added.
"Mudede shall make adequate and reasonable administrative arrangements for all voters registered on the common roll who will not be in their constituencies on the polling days, to exercise their vote," Makarau was quoted as saying.
Rights groups say hundreds of Zimbabweans have been displaced from their home constituencies in the political violence which has rocked the country ahead of the election.
The MDC says nearly 100 of its supporters have been killed in political violence since February 2000 when militants led by veterans of the 1970s war against white rule began often violent seizures of white-owned farms with government backing. - Reuters