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IEBC's Kisumu County Returning Officer John Cox and Commissioner Roseline Akombe during the training of presiding officers at Tom Mboya Labour College in Kisumu on Saturday. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]
The electoral commission now wants presiding officers allowed to open ballot boxes to retrieve and correct wrongly filled results forms without a court order.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) said this was one of the measures it was taking to ensure that the October 26 repeat presidential election was transparent and that errors were corrected fast.
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