Kenya: Electronic cards to prevent rigging
Thomas Onyiego, Nairobi (Kenya), 26 April 2010
The interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) is mandated by the constitution of Kenya (amendment) act 2008 to carry out fresh registration of voters and creat a new registers of voters.
It is due to the 2007 post election violence that has led to fresh registration of voters countrywide, people were displaced and others died so the displaced people will register as new people in their new constituency.
Kamukunji Constituency will be voting electronically because in the 2007 general elections their were a lot of rigging of votes.This method have been introduced to Kamukunji constituency only out of 210 constituency and this electronic system will minimize cases of candidates complaining that their votes has been stolen.
‘Electronic system will be hard for the people who are used to steal votes or rigging,I really comment that this system to be pit in place in all the 210 constituencies because it is transparent and in accountabke way’, this was said by John Mulingwa who is the chairman of Pumwani Youth Group Network.
‘I have just came here to take this voters card because of what we experience in the 2007 general elections and am a human right activist and wherever I go I have to produced this card so that whatever I tell them they should know is the truth’, this was said by Shadiq who is a human right activist.
Now Kamukunji constituency will have to be the role model of the other 210 constituencies because this electronic system is the pilot phase in Kamukunji and citizens of Kenya must prove that electronic system voting is the transparent way of voting.
02 May 2010, 21:51
