The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has clarified on when the manual register may be used on polling day.
IEBC CEO, Hussein Marjan said when three different KIEMS Kits fail to function, the manual register will be applied.
“If you turn up on polling day and for some reasons, we are not able to identify you it says we replace the kit,” said Marjan
He added “once we replace the kit and it refuses, we have a third kit and if that is not working that is when we can resort to a manual register,” .
Marjan added that IEBC is abiding by a court of Appeal of 2017.
The ruling had directed that the primary register to be used at the polls is the Digital Register.
At the same time, the ruling also stipulated that a manual register be used should the KIEMS Kit technology fail.
Azimio leader Raila Odinga had said there would be no elections if the commission would not use the manual register .
According to Odinga, absence of a manual register along with the electronic register would be a rigging recipe.
“I am telling the IEBC that a manual register is a must in each and every polling station,” said Raila.
“It is not negotiable, a manual register is a must,otherwise No manual register, no elections.”
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