Kenya: Kriegler Team Questions Voting Practice

Nairobi — Senior officials of the Electoral Commission were Tuesday questioned over the practice of allowing voters to pick, one at a time, three different ballot papers during voting.

The ballots for presidential, parliamentary and civic elections should all be given at once and allow the voter to mark them in the booth, drop them in the respective boxes, then leave the station. Some members of the Kriegler Commission said the system of allowing voters to return three times to pick different ballot papers was open to abuse.

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