Approximately 2.8 million people have been registered as voters countrywide since the Biometric Voter Registration exercise started last week. This represents a shortfall of nearly one million voters that the electoral commission was targeting to register during the first week. IEBC says there has been a low turnout in many places, with Mandera, Wajir and Garissa recording the poorest turnouts, as Esther Kahumbi reports.

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Kenya’s Electoral Body to Review Diaspora Vote

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission maintains that it has the final say on whether citizens outside the country may vote despite an earlier Cabinet decision to rule ... Read more »

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