On the morning of 27 June 2008, two queues stood beside each other in Strathaven, Harare. More than 200 people formed an L-shaped line for bread; at the adjacent polling station, guarded by four police officers, only three waited to vote. The government had released flour stocks for the first time that week, drawing people toward bread rather than a presidential runoff widely condemned after violence left more than one hundred dead and Robert Mugabe as the sole candidate. Elsewhere, witnesses said reluctant residents were forced into voting queues and names read aloud. The two lines embodied different kinds of order: one voluntarily joined for food, the other shadowed by coercion. Their unequal lengths made the morning’s priorities visible without a poll result.