Kenya's first stab at using voting technology in 2013 was not a success - the system broadly failed, forcing the election commission to return to manual methods. The photographs are pooled at a constituency level, then forwarded to a national tally centre, where they are cross-checked against the original forms which are physically transported. To limit the possibility of fraud, the official form displaying the outcome from each polling station will be photographed and transmitted digitally, instead of officials inputting the results manually as was the case in 2017.

Technology comes into play again when polling stations close and votes are counted. On election day, voters provide their fingerprints for identification against a digital database, before casting their ballot in a traditional manner using a pen and paper. In the subsequent 20 elections, results were transmitted electronically, and biometrics used to register voters and identify them on polling day.īiometric voter registration has been a success, boosting the electoral roll from 14.3 million in 2013 to 19.6 million in 2017 and 22.1 million in 2022. Here's what to know as Kenya's votes on August 9:Īfter the death of more than 1,100 people in violence after the 2007 election, technology was proposed as a way of bolstering transparency around polls and reducing the delay in announcing results, a major source of tension. Kenya presidential contender Odinga says won't take part in debate

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