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Coast residents protest over voter listing delays

Curious sheep at a voter registration centre in Kiboino, Baringo County. The exercise started with low turnout with a section of residents claiming they did not know it had kicked off. [PHOTO: KEVIN TUNOI/STANDARD]

Faulty Biometric Voter Registration kits and power outages marred the first day of voter registration in the coastal region.

Power outages were reported in Mombasa where a number of voter registration officials appeared to have either carried faulty machines or had not arranged for alternative power back up for the kit's batteries.

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