The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has come up with further measures aimed at stopping fraud during the elections.
The commission has made it mandatory that all voters entering a polling station receive six ballot papers - for all the elective seats.
This is meant to ensure that the number of votes cast for each elective seat in the polling station agrees with the cumulative presidential vote in that station. All polling officials have been instructed to effect the directive.
"The instructions have been included in our polling procedures for purposes of training polling clerks and presiding officers," IEBC Commissioner Rose Akombe said.
Dispelling fears
This is meant to dispel fears that some areas may register a higher turnout for the presidential election than the other five seats, inviting suspicions of foul play.
In 2013, NASA, the main opposition group, participating in the polls as Cord, accused the electoral commission of allowing its opponents to stuff boxes with more than two million extra ballots.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga has often said that records showed that 10 million people voted for all the other candidates - governors, MPs, woman representatives, and MCAs - yet the same records show that 12 million people voted for the presidential candidates.
The then electoral commission dismissed the claims, but admitted that there was a discrepancy of 458,085 votes between those who voted for the presidential candidates and the other five seats.
IEBC wants to avoid a scenario where the turnout for the presidential seat will be relatively higher and thus raise suspicions of rigging.
By making it compulsory for every voter to get six ballots and unique features introduced to the presidential ballot paper, the commission also hopes to address concerns by the Opposition, which has claimed that extra papers have been printed to help Jubilee.
"At the opening of the polling station, the presiding officers will show party agents the number of ballot papers issued and record them in the polling day diary, complete with the unique serial numbers. At the end of polling, the presiding officer will record the number of unused ballot papers and provide the same to the agents," Dr Akombe said.
Last week IEBC announced that it had sealed another possible loophole that could have allowed 'dead' voters to cast a ballot by doing away with the manual crossing out of a voter's name on the printed register.
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