ODM secretary general Agnes Zani. Photo/The StarThe ODM secretary general Agnes Zani now wants the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to publish the voter register per polling station instead of giving summations.
According to Zani, the summary of total voters per station isn't enough, claiming that in some regions, the figures have been exaggerated.“Moreover, such summations as in the case of Tana River and Embu have been glaringly faulty with figures exaggerated upwards,” said Zani in a statement Wednesday.The Nominated Senator further demanded that the electoral body ensures political parties access the register to be used on August 8, for scrutiny as per the law.
“Kenyans have 34 days to the August 8 General Election and up to now, the IEBC has failed, or totally avoided, to make public the voter register to be used on Election Day,” she added as quoted by the Star.
She said the commission was buying time to publish a PDF version of the register with the names of all voters in polling stations so that Kenyans fail to audit and remove ghost voters.
This, claimed the ODM official, is aimed at working in favour of the ruling Jubilee Party.
“This needs to be done in good time to allow members to verify and plan,” Zani stated, while accusing the commission of sidelining the National Super Alliance (NASA).
“There are reports of IEBC clerks doing mass transfers of voters to other polling stations in favour of certain candidates,” she added.
She said the voter verification through the 70000 code brought out a list that did not clearly link persons to their identifiers.
“Our voters want to know their polling stations. They want to make a final verification because this election is momentous in their lives,” she said.
She said this will also stem cases of voter importation.
"They also want to know who else is voting in these polling centres to avoid cases of voter importation on Election Day. Voters want to plan in advance,” she added.