Debate over manual or electronic registers use on voting day continues to haunt elections body

IEBC is mandated to develop a policy on the progressive use of technology. [David Gichuru, Standard]

It could have been a measure of its confidence in technology, but the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission’s (IEBC) decision to discard the manual voter register has been faulted.

The method the IEBC uses to identify voters before they are allowed to cast their ballots, and the results transmission at the end of polling, have been contentious issues.