Cyber warfare as politicians turn to Internet propaganda to woo voters

Cyber warfare as politicians turn to Internet propaganda to woo voters

During the voter registration drive by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) earlier this year, a woman called in during a morning radio talk show to comment on a debate on the low turnout.

“I’d like to call on women to come out in large numbers and get registered,” she pleaded. “In the last elections, someone in our village started rumours that the biometric voter registration kits were materials for conducting secret birth control experiments and many women did not get registered.”