IEBC Misses Its Target as The Second Phase of ECVR Concludes

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The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has concluded the second phase of Enhanced Continuous Voters Registration (ECVR) in all 1,450 County Assembly Wards (CAWs), institutions of higher learning and Huduma Centers countrywide.

The commission has also concluded the exercise in the United States of America, Qatar, Germany, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.

However, voter registration in the United Kingdom (UK), United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Canada will be concluded on 7th February, 14th February and 15th February respectively.

In a statement issued on Monday, 7th February IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati stated that by close of business on 6th February 2022, the ECVR Phase II exercise had realised a total of 1,031,645 new voters.

Further, a total of 396,163 registered voters applied to transfer to registration centres of their choice, while 2,269 changes their particulars.

Chebukati also noted that the voter registration exercise for visitors residing outside the country (diaspora) had so far enrolled 2,859 new voters, 2,964 requests for transfer and 2,036 applications for change of particulars.

In total, the commission managed registered 2.5 voters during the first and second phases. In the first phase, IEBC registered 1,519, 294 against the targeted six million voters.

IEBC has now missed its targeted six million new voters by 2.9 million.

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