The polling stations will be gazetted tomorrow (Friday) to have voters prepare for the exercise on Saturday," said Chebukati. But the Chairman said the commission would have to declare the results if the voters in these areas fail to take the second chance granted to them on Saturday. He said that the Constitution requires the electoral body to declare the results at least seven days after the elections are held, and thus it may be difficult to order repeat exercise in areas where the voters do not turn up. Chebukati revealed that they had received opening messages from 35564 representing 87 percent of the 40883 polling stations, which is an indicator that they opened the stations to start voting. ALSO READ: NASA accuses IEBC of ethnic profilingHe said 5,319 polling stations did not send opening message, meaning ether they did not start the voting or had network challenges.

Source: Standard Digital October 26, 2017 20:09 UTC