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Electronic voting is not a silver bullet for fair elections

In the polarised political environment Kenya finds itself in, the big question is: Is the country ready for a complementary manual voting system in case of biometric voter kits’ failure?

It is not lost on us that many voting machines in Africa have deliberately and spectacularly failed in the middle of elections. At least 25 countries in Africa have tried an electronic component of one kind of another in their systems. Many have experienced glitches.

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