Jubilee Party launch a smart card to prevent fraud in registration

President Uhuru Kenyatta (right) deputy President William Ruto (centre) and Jubilee party secretariat Raphael Tuju during the launch of Jubilee membership smart card at kasarani. (Photo: Beverlyne Musili/Standard)

Jubilee Party has launched a smart card to eliminate fraud in registration of members.

The card will also be used in the nomination exercise and has a unique bar code that is machine verifiable.

It captures a member's name, national identity card number and telephone number.

To ensure supporters are duly registered as members and registered voters, the card is connected to the database of the Registrar of Political Parties and that of the Independent, Electoral and Boundaries Commission.

All party members who would wish to participate in the nomination exercise must, therefore, acquire the smart card.

To activate it, a member will send a text message with the word 'ACCEPT to 30553, after which they will be prompted to complete registration by sending their name, identity number and card number.

There will be a manual registration at the 47 county offices across the country in areas that have no mobile network.

Speaking yesterday at Kasarani, Raphael Tuju, the head of the JP secretariat said the smart card registration will revolutionise the country's politics.

"For first time a party in Africa has used a smart card for membership registration. The method seeks to eliminate fraud and ensure voters elect leaders of their choice," said Tuju.

Members will acquire the card at Sh20.