After the Kenya Integrated Elections Management System, (KIEMS), failed to verify their biometric registration status, the elderly and quarry workers of Baringo County were forced to wait longer to vote.
The region is rich in quarries and many of the workers’ fingerprints have been worn out in the course of their work.
The longer verification process involved the taking of the voters through which the presiding officers must fill out a form for them to vote.
In Tenges Primary polling centre 11 such cases out of 230 that had cast their votes by one o’clock were singled out of the Biometric KIEMS process while in Cheberen seven out of 92 were also verified by alternative means.
At Kaplebuk Nursery school, Mogotio constituency, five voters were verified via the filing of forms. Chepkokon Primary school was witness to six such cases.
The proportion at Kipkoriony, Eldama Ravine Constituency was lower at six voters out of 400. At Koibatek ATC, only three elderly people were affected out of the 126 who voted.
Both Shimoni Primary School and Shimoni Nursery School were in Eldama Ravine, but there was a small number of voters who were verified through the filling out of forms.
By Christopher Kiprop
Source: kenyanews
