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Tech hitch in UDA polls as top leaders fail to vote

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Former Rangwe MP Martin Ogindo was voting at Homa Bay Primary School during the UDA grassroots election on April 26, 2024. [James Omoro, Standard]

United Democratic Alliance's (UDA) grassroots elections were marred with technological hitches as some leaders failed to cast their votes.

Nairobi Governor Johnstone Sakaja's name, alongside those of Dagoretti South MP John Kiarie and some MCAs, could not be recognised by the election gadgets, a move that locked out the leaders from participating in the ruling party's historic electronic voting.

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