The national council of NGOs has asked the electoral commission to come out and clear the air on court cases surrounding ballot boxes.
Chair Stephen Cheboi on Wednesday said Kenya was fast approaching the polls and people are still confused on what is going on.
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"The commission should tell Kenyans if they will be ready to hold elections because these cases are confusing," he said.
The opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) and a group of rights activists have sued to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) over the ballots.
There are separate cases against the BVR kits, the ballot printing tender, the results transmission process, and the law that was made in Parliament on elections.
In their case against IEBC and the Kenya Bureau of Standards, activists Maina Kiai, Tirop Kitur and Khelef Khalifa, are challenging the procurement process of the Biometric Voter Register (BVR) kits.
They argue that the identification devices that IEBC procured were not verified and thus cannot be used in the elections.
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The devices, they argue, were not been subjected to pre-export verification standards and might contain ghost voters in a bid to enable rigging.
Mr Cheboi at the same time, asked leaders to be optimistic about the elections and not paint a narrative that elections are necessarily going to be stolen.
"When you start alleging things like that, then it means you are preparing for that and won't accept the result," he said.
His vice chairperson Agola Orimba asked the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to provide more information on ballots.
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This was after IEBC on Tuesday announced that it had received ballot papers for gubernatorial, senatorial and woman rep races.
She also said voter education is also not being conducted well as many Kenyans still don't know how they are going to vote.
“People need to be advised on how they are going to vote, especially the disabled like the blind and the elderly," she said.
Source: Nation
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