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The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission stands on the threshold of making history. Unfortunately this could go two ways: by bungling the tender for the biometric voter registration kit and totally ruining any goodwill it has worked hard to attain and maintain, or by sticking to the procurement rules and delivering a clean election.
Let us say outright that electronic voter registration, if done above board, is the best and most secure form of registration worldwide. A return to manual voter registration as advocated by a section of politicians would be far more risky and open to tampering. But the way things are going, there is every reason to fear that a section of the IEBC, in its zeal to please everybody, is now in real danger of being held captive to various political and business interests.
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