Yes, IEBC will use both electronic and manual registers in polling stations - iVerify Kenya

Yes, IEBC will use both electronic and manual registers in polling stations

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The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) on July 7, 2022 stated that manual registers will be used only if digital registers fail to function properly.

The commission announced that it had doubled the number of Kenya Integrated Election Management System (KIEMS) kits in case some of them failed to function.

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Verified Jul, 14 2022

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IEBC confirms that they will use both Electronic and Manual Register in every polling station.

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The IVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is True.

To arrive to this conclusion, the IVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We discovered a video of IEBC commissioner Abdi Guliye shared on Ebru TV’s YouTube channel, on July 7, 2022 in which the commissioner confirmed that the manual registers will only be used in case the digital registers fail to work.

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