The new electoral law has created a fresh crisis at the electoral agency and preparations for the 2017 election are beginning to seem like a mission impossible. The law sets new and rigid requirements and shorter timelines, effectively messing up the calendar for the August 8, 2017, general election. IEBC had drawn up its 2017 roadmap, the elections operations plan, but the commission must revise timelines to conform to electoral law amendments enacted by Parliament last month. “The new amendments to the election law have far-reaching implications for management of elections, especially 2017, ” IEBC admits in its document. This means the IEBC will use 44,000 polling stations for voter verification, compared to 24,000 used in 2013.

Source: The Star September 28, 2016 23:15 UTC