Kenya president Mr Uhuru Kenyatta has approved a law on back up in election when the electronic voting collapse. The Kenyatta's approval has come with the strong opposition condemning the the manual way to back up the process as a source of ballot rigging.
The build up too the 2017 vote has already damaged by the protests which have left more than 3 people died
Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga disputed the result of the 2013 race, which he lost to Kenyatta after electronic voter identification and other election systems collapsed. He has led opposition to the new law.the 71-year-old son of Kenya’s first vice-president, has run for the presidency of Kenya on three occasions, in 1997, 2007 and 2013. Each time, he has lost out, most recently to Uhuru Kenyatta, the third son of the country’s first leader.
“I have always won [elections] and I have been rigged out,” Odinga once told the Newsweek during in last year July.
At least 22 million voters are expected to cast their ballots on
August 8, 2017 to elect new leaders after the Independent Electoral and
Boundaries Commission set the date for the next elections.
The electoral body fixed the date for the next elections despite recent efforts by MPs to move the polls to December.
IEBC
Chairman Issack Hassan announced the date at the commission’s offices
at Anniversary Towers in Nairobi where a schedule for the mass
registration of voters was also revealed.
“The next
General election will be held on Tuesday, August 8, 2017 as per the
Constitution. That is only 19 months away or 607 days to be exact,” said
Mr Hassan.
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