Did Not Register To Vote

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By Winfrey Owino | Jun eighth 2022 | 2 min read

A voter gives biometric details during voter identification. [File, Standard]

IEBC has postponed publishing its last voter register to give it fourth dimension to address the preliminary audit findings.

The Chebukati-led commission at present says information technology will publish the voter register by June 20.

In a press briefing at the Bomas of Kenya on Midweek night, Chebukati said the commission received a preliminary audit report with useful information which must be reviewed earlier the final voter register is released to the public.

"We were supposed to publish the final voter register past June nine. However, due to the implementation of preliminary audit findings, the commission seeks more time to address the findings," Chebukati said.

"246,465 deceased voters, 481,711 duplicate records and 226,143 voters registered with IDs that don't validly vest to them, 164,269 registered with voter records with invalid identification documents (IDs and Passports) that take to exist addressed prior to certification and publishing of the annals,"

Instead, the commission has appear plans to publish the final voter register after receiving the final register from a Dutch firm, KPMG past June sixteen. The commission plans to exercise public participation on June 17.

On June 2, UDA presidential candidate William Ruto, while hosting ambassadors from the European Wedlock (Eu) at his official Karen residence in Nairobi, claimed one million names in the voters' register were missing.

IEBC later on dismissed the claims saying this represented the number of people who had requested to modify their voting stations.

On June five, Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition party flagbearer Raila Odinga, in a 10- point need to IEBC, sought to have the commission make public the inspect of the voter annals among other issues.

He spoke after being cleared by IEBC.

The Commission rolled out Phase I of the Enhanced Continuous Voter Registration (ECVR) exercise from October 4 to November 5, 2021, where a total of i,519,294 eligible Kenyans were registered as new voters out of the targeted 6 1000000.

The 2d stage of Enhanced Continuous Voter Registration (ECVR) ran from January 17 to Feb six, 2022, in preparation for the August 9 General Elections.