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Concern over high number of spoilt votes

An IEBC official counts votes at Wagai polling station in Gem Constituency on Tuesday. [Phillip Orwa, Standard]

The number of spoilt and disputed votes in this year's polls could be highest ever in Kenya's election history.

In fact, if  'Rejected Ballot' had been a candidate, s/he would have come third based on the provisional results that put President Uhuru Kenyatta ahead of NASA's Raila Odinga.

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