Advertisement“The commission is keen to reduce the cost of future elections by reusing its election materials including elections technology,” Mr Chebukati said. Kiems contains the biometric voter registration, candidate registration, voter identification and the all-important results transmission system. Currently, Mr Chebukati said, the commission owns the hardware, but still needs regular software updates from the French firm. This, Mr Chebukati argues, has to change, and the first port of call is the re-use of election materials. In 2013, for example, the commission splashed Sh4.6 billion on 15,000 Biometric Voter Registration Kits and Sh1.7 billion on 34,000 Electronic Voter Identification Devices (EVID).

Source: Daily Nation April 18, 2020 16:52 UTC