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Kenya election: What are these Kiems kits?

An IEBC official holds a KIEMS gadget during tallying at Nyeri Technical in Nyeri town on August 9, 2017. FILE PHOTO | NMG

By  ONYANGO K’ONYANGO

Kenya’s elections on Tuesday witnessed sporadic failures of kits used to manage voters’ roll and transmission.

In some stations, the polling clerks were forced to identify voters using the manual registers after the gadgets failed.

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