By SILAS APOLLO More by this AuthorUpdateThe electoral commission has said 12.065 million Kenyans had voted by 4 pm, with only one hour left to the official polling stations closing time of 5 pm. According to IEBC, the figure, which represents 56.17 percent voter turnout, excludes the number of voters identified through the manual register and those who were still in queues as at 4 pm. Earlier storyOnly 30 percent of Kenyan voters had cast ballots by middayThe electoral commission has announced that 6,567,869 million Kenyans had turned up to vote by 12 pm on Tuesday. AdvertisementIndependent Electoral and Boundaries Commission vice chairperson Juliana Cherera said polls were opened at 6 am in most places countrywide as well as in the diaspora. At the same time, IEBC has allowed the use of the manual voter register in Makueni County for 84 polling stations and Kakamega County for 154 polling stations.

Source: Daily Nation August 10, 2022 04:31 UTC