IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati addresses journalists at County Hall, Nairobi after appearing before ad hoc joint select committee of Parliament on October 5, 2017. [Photo: nation.co.ke]The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has agreed with six of the 11 clauses that the Jubilee Party seeks to amend the elections law ahead of October 26 repeat presidential election.It has, however, disagreed with two and partly agreed with three.The commission agrees with the proposal to have another member appointed chairman in the absence of the chairman or his deputy and accepted another one on the nomination of presidential candidates, the Nation reports.It was also in agreement with a proposal to allow a complementary mechanism to identify voters and another to insulate results from being cancelled because of clerical errors.The electoral agency also nodded to the definition of the procedure for a fresh election after an annulment and the proposed five-year jail term for officers who fail to fill result forms completely or submit incomplete forms.Chebukati said the provision on the appointment of alternative chairman, was in line with provisions in the Constitution for the Deputy President to act as the President in his absence and for the Deputy Chief Justice to swear in the President in the absence of the Chief Justice.On the transmission of results IEBC, however, asked the ad hoc joint parliamentary committee, to state that the results should be 'physically delivered'.It also added a provision that returning officers have the physically delivered results before they declare the results of an election.The commission asked the committee to keep the provision that the chairman of the commission is a lawyer and qualified to be appointed Supreme Court judge and delete or amend the proposal to reduce the quorum of the commission.

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