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Low turnout, glitches hit polls
A voter confirms his votes before casting them at Kileleshwa Primary School polling station during Kenya's general election on August 9, 2022. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NMG
The General Election was plagued with late opening of polling stations, and technical hitches as turnout risk falling below the 80 percent witnessed in 2017’s polls.
Several voters who showed up early at the polling stations experienced delays in casting their ballots after the Kenya Integrated Elections Management Systems (KIEMS) kits failed to pick their fingerprints.