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IEBC printing 1M extra ballot papers allows room for rigging!

  • IEBC print more ballot papers for the upcoming general elections amounting to almost 800,000 ballot papers.
  • The commission says 6.5 per cent extra ballot papers were printing instead of 1 per cent earlier mentioned.

When Third way Alliance Party presidential candidate, Ekuru Aukot, claimed that nobody supervised the Al Ghurair printing on presidential ballot papers as required by the court ruling, we all thought these were flagged white smokes on erratic behaviors and lack of commitment that have been witnessed in this commission's deliberate unpreparedness to give Kenyans a credible and verifiable election come the 8th of August. To worsen that eye-sore report, the NASA representative to Al Ghurair firm never gave their reports on the findings at the Dubai based printers whose tenders had unanimously been declined by the NASA team.

It later appeared from IEBC haphazard and erratic tweets, that the IEBC has indeed confirmed that they printed 6.5 per cent extra ballot mounting to over 800,000 instead of 196,000 ballot papers to carter for spoilt votes in the upcoming elections, which until now we can not verify if indeed it was the number printed or another usual +or- lie figure.

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