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Kenya ready for mobile voting system

Makueni Governor Kivutha Kibwana is taken through a biometric audit exercise in the past. PHOTO: FILE

The showdown in Parliament yesterday could have been avoided if the warring coalitions appreciated how far the country has developed in the usage of information communication technologies (ICT).

The most contentious issue about the new election laws was whether the country should have a manual system of voting as a fall-back plan should the Biometric Voter Identification devices and the electronic results transmission system proposed fail, like in the 2013 polls.

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