Politics
Voters to get new electors cards
Elders of Shinyalu constituency meets with Dr.Bonny Khalwale of New Ford-Kenya in Shinyalu to strategise on how to sell the party's candidate Henry Lugulu (not in the picture) who is contesting for the seat following the death of their MP,the late Charles Lugano.
Posted Tuesday, June 30 2009 at 22:30
In Summary
- Document now has security features to prevent fraud, say election officials
Voters in the Bomachoge and Shinyalu by-elections will use new electors cards.
The Independent Electoral Commission of Kenya said the new IIEC cards have security features to prevent fraud.
Led by commissioner Hamara Ibrahim, the team said that IIEC is mandated to reform the electoral process and restore the confidence of Kenyans.
The voter registration exercise was launched on Monday and will end on July 28. There are two registration clerks in each of the 130 centre out of which 19 have double streams with three clerks to manage the large number of voters.
Master register
The clerks will use the master register of 2007 to give out cards. All old cards are supposed to be surrendered to IIEC.
The commissioners said that official campaigns will take place between August 5 and 25, and warned aspirants against holding political campaigns until that time.
They said the commissioners will meet with all political parties on July 7, to agree on how to conduct themselves during the campaign period.
To avoid voter importation, Commissioner Yusuf Nzibo said electors will not be allowed to transfer from one polling centre to another.
The commissioners said they had requested the registrar of persons to speed up the giving of IDs to enable more people to vote.
The IIEC will next week launch a voter education campaign. Ms Nzibo said the commission will use women, youth and lobby groups in the exercise.
They appealed to aspirants to campaign peacefully adding that politicians must adhere to the code of conduct.
At the same time, Narc-K party nominations were held on Tuesday to pick its flag bearer for the Bomachoge by-election.
Mr James Ombasa Omweno emerged the winner against Mr Ferdinand Obure by gunning 106 votes against his only contender who got 16 votes.
Three candidates were battling for the ticket. Mr Isaac Oseko Mbaka withdrew his candidature at the eleventh hour.
Mr Obure protested over voter bribery and alleged that delegates were hand-picked by chiefs and assistant chiefs. He said government officers should not be involved in politics.
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Submitted by coldcasePosted July 02, 2009 12:32 AM
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Submitted by Isaya Baraza
Please introduce also transparent ballot boxes because the non transparent ones have also contributed to rigging.
Posted July 01, 2009 09:10 PM -
Submitted by yesuwangu
advance everthing into one.ONe electronic Identity card with a microchip able to vote and must be used everywhere even in banks and containig driving licenece details and pin number.because some people are very tricky and have taken advantage to make fake of passports,ID,driving licences and given even to non Kenyans
Posted July 01, 2009 08:33 PM -
Submitted by karabu
India used electronic voting machines during their recent elections. We can learn from them and others. Get such machines to reduce cheating, errors, double voting etc.
Posted July 01, 2009 06:46 PM -
Submitted by momaxm
Use ATM technology to make these card hard to forge. Add pictures to them to make them harder to pass on to the next person. Above all use technology - touch screens and automatic counts to make counting easy. Democracy is expensive and if these are what will protect us from recurrent post election violence, so be it!
Posted July 01, 2009 03:21 AM
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Dear Kenyans, when will we stop thinking like fleas? we have ID card, Voting card, Passport etc etc, is it too hard to get everyone in Kenya on to a computer data base and have laptops during election time where every Kenyan who wants to vote does so and the results beamed as voting goes on? This is simple IT.