Manual voting in Kenya will be a recipe for chaos in 2017 general elections

It matters to me little who really wins the 2017 general elections but just like millions of Kenyans who believe in absolute democracy and free will of the people to choose their leaders, the electoral system and process adopted should endeavor to deliver credible results. Moreover, the system should not be marred by any form of irregularities that would be deemed to have changed the course of a nation. The system should be reliable and one that can be vetted after the election to verify that the leaders chosen represent the common will of the forty-two tribes that make the nation.

However, the ongoing political wrangles on whether the electoral body should adopt the manual system in case the digital voting system fails has indicated the ulterior motive of the incumbent administration to rig or manipulate the final election results in its favor. This assertion is candidly true especially when house majority leader Aden asserts that the Cord alliance wants to use the digital voting system to rig the election or working with the West to install unpopular leaders on Kenyans.