[Form 34A of Kimumu polling station in Moiben constituency. The polling station has precipitated to social media criticism on IEBC. Photo/IEBC]
Even with Kenyans differing sharply over the total turnout of voters in October elections, the debate is likely to continue following a mysterious record uploaded in the IEBC website.
While IEBC maintains that at least 40 percent of Kenya’s 19.5 million registered voters turned up, the opposition team, which had withdrawn from the race, claims that only 31 percent turned up.
And in Moiben constituency, IEBC officials indicated that all 671 registered voters turned up for the exercise even with total tally of the same polling station showing that only 283 made it.
“These are the silly mistakes IEBC is deliberately doing to exaggerate the total figure of those who turned out,” says Nelson Havi in reference to Kimumu Primary turnout.
Peter Njoroge adds on his twitter: “This basically is what the Supreme Court can easily punish. IEBC does not learn from the past.”
Supreme Court nullified August 8th elections on the grounds that the commission had committed massive ‘illegalities and irregularities’.
The October poll was widely boycotted following the decision by opposition leader Raila Odinga to withdraw from the race.