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Jubilee passes law allowing manual voting as CORD moves to court

MPs walk into Parliament after they were barred from entering the compound in their cars.  

Members of Parliament allied to Jubilee Thursday passed amendments to the election laws, allowing manual voting and transmission of poll results in the event that technology fails.

While the law was being passed, CORD legislators were marching in the streets of Nairobi having stormed out of the House claiming intimidation by their Jubilee counterparts and police. 

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