Kenya moves to mop up discrepancies in voters’ register
Kenya’s electoral agency says an ongoing audit of its voters’ roll has found the names of nearly 250,000 deceased voters on the register.
Nearly half a million more voters were found to have duplicate records and more than 226,000 people were registered using documents that do not belong to them.
Others had registered with invalid documents, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) said in a statement on the anomalies that affect more than a million people.
IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati said because of the implementation of the preliminary audit findings the commission would delay certifying the final register for publication, earlier scheduled for June 9.
Electoral irregularities in past elections in Kenya have led to deadly violence.
Four presidential candidates have been cleared to run ahead of this year’s elections to be held on 9th of August,