The company providing the voting system for the re-run of Kenya’s presidential election says the equipment will not be ready in time, for the planned date for the election, the firm said. The electronic voting system due to be used in a re-run of Kenya’s presidential poll will not be ready in time, the French biometrics firm behind it said.
The Supreme Court annulled last month’s poll, citing irregularities. It was won by the incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta.
OT-Morpho provided Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) with equipment to identify voters biometrically in the August 8 election.
The company says it will have to reinstall 45 000 computer kits used in transmitting provisional results to the laptops used for bio-metric ID. A feat it says it can’t assure within the allotted time.
