The calls by various political leaders for an extension of the final mass voter registration drive beyond tomorrow’s deadline are a sensible idea. The commissioners of the IEBC should extend the mass registration by at most a fortnight, to the end of February. Millions of young Kenyans are keen to vote for the first time in the hope of making a difference. At the moment they hold only waiting papers that will progressively give them ID cards. How long will it take to cleanup the voter’s register, a largely automated and computerised task?

Source: The Star February 12, 2017 21:22 UTC