“But we are under no illusion that electronic voting will happen this year. A third of the 777 respondents came from the United States, which is also the country with the largest estimated population of the Kenyan diaspora. The desire for electronic voting is also influenced by the distance they have to travel to cast their ballots. At the time, IEBC argued it had considered costs, impact of diaspora voting on domestic politics and logistics. “Ideally, in my experience as a member of the diaspora, I would have said, absolutely, let us go for electronic voting.

Source: Daily Nation January 26, 2017 16:00 UTC