IEBC officials at a polling station counting votes during the 2013 general elections. [the-star.co.ke]The kits to be used in identifying voters and sending results have already been retrieved from the field, according to a timetable released by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) on Friday.The Kenya Integrated Elections Management System (KIEMS) kits were retrieved between September 4 and September 8 according to Saturday Nation.The electoral agency is also reported to be in the process of upgrading its electronic system to be used in the October 17 repeat presidential elections.The IEBC is also enhancing its Results Transmission and Presentation (RTS) software, in an exercise that started Friday and is set to end on September 15.“At the end of voting and when votes have been counted and tallied, the presiding officers enter the data on the signed results sheet (Form 35) into a specially configured mobile phones and transmits the results simultaneous to the election results centres at the constituency, county and national level,” IEBC in statement says as quoted by Saturday Nation.The IEBC schedule also shows that the process of uploading voter registers into the electronic gadgets will be done on September 22 and the distribution of KIEMS to polling station will be done for eight days starting October 1.

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