You couldn’t make it up. Moses Moyo over at Zimbabwe Today claims to have a reliable source within ZEC, who has been keeping him informed of the progress of the weekend’s (illegal) recounts, and makes this report:

…the recounts of both votes, which are unjustified and quite possibly illegal, began on Saturday – and by halfway through the afternoon it became quite clear to the Zanu-PF officials in attendance that those doing the counting had mis-counted yet again.

There were the piles of votes. The recounts of 16 parliamentary constituencies had been completed. Each had originally been won by the MDC. Each, in the recount, had also been won by the MDC – in some cases, by an even greater majority than before.

The Presidential election recount was also proceeding on schedule. The original count gave MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai a clear and conclusive lead over President Robert Mugabe of Zanu-PF. And the recount? Yes, it was showing very much the same result.

At this point the Zanu-PF officials stepped in, to demand that the recount be recounted, and, weak-kneed as ever, the ZEC people agreed. And the counting began all over again. And is still going on. And on and on.

So the situation seems to be “keep counting until you get the result we tell you to”. It’s no wonder Zanu-PF have left Zimbabwe’s economy in the situation that it’s in, when they quite clearly can’t even rig an election properly. I’d be laughing if it wasn’t such a tragic and dangerous situation…