In some places, voting was delayed by more than five hours and some would-be voters might have given up altogether.
Besides, gubernatorial elections in Kakamega and Mombasa were suspended over errors on the ballot papers.
The IEBC’s mandate is to conduct free and fair elections. This calls for utmost efficiency.
The technical hitches witnessed during yesterday’s General Election are an indictment of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission’s (IEBC)performance.
Electronic voter identification kits malfunctioned, causing long delays. Ironically, the electoral agency resorted to manual registers in some areas, just a day after the Court of Appeal suspended their mandatory use.
