The electronic voting system due to be used in a re-run of Kenya’s presidential poll will not be ready in time, the French biometrics firm behind it said.
OT-Morpho provided Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) with equipment to identify voters biometrically in the August 8 election.
The company says it will have to reinstall 45 000 computer kits used in transmitting provisional results to the laptops used for bio-metric ID.
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A feat it says it can’t assure within the allotted time.
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