Kenyans took to social media to complain that IEBC has increased the number of presidential ballot papers to 20,818,000 instead of 19,687,563 required.
The 1,130,437 difference is said be an allowance to cater for the spoilt ballot papers during shipment, storage or voting.
But NASA supporters took to Twitter and Facebook claiming that the over 1million ballot papers will be used to stuff ballot boxes during voting scheduled in the next 9 days.
NASA’s Godfrey Oyotsi needs to come clean on what he went to do at Al Ghurair. Why did he disappear and where to? #ExtraBallotsScandal
— D I K E M B E (@Disembe) July 30, 2017
One percent of 19m voters can’t be 1.2 million voters. #ExtraBallotsScandal is an @IEBCKenya scandal to allow rigging. @ItsMutai
— D I K E M B E (@Disembe) July 30, 2017
Why did @IEBCKenya print extra 998,000 ballot papers despite the voter register having close to 2million dead voters? #ExtraBallotsScandal
— Eric (@amerix) July 30, 2017
This is how 2M voters voted for Uhuru alone in 2013, this time it’s 1.2 million. @IEBCKenya don’t burn this country #ExtraBallotsScandal pic.twitter.com/c5eoNE5iaA
— Ike Kenneth (@IkeOjuok) July 30, 2017
Plan A -> Outright rigging; Plan B -> Runoff; Plan C -> Supreme Court Petition; Plan D -> Refuse to hand over #ExtraBallotsScandal
— Phil (@Phil_254) July 30, 2017
The 1.2million ballots will be stuffed in Mt. Kenya region to generate the 50+1% win for Uhuru Kenyatta. #ExtraBallotsScandal https://t.co/k9tPXPjlR6
— Ike Kenneth (@IkeOjuok) July 30, 2017
According to IEBC, the ballot papers will arrive next week in 416,360 booklets, inclusive of the one per cent provision in case of spoilt votes. Kenyans questioned the proficiency of IEBC in mathematics as 1% would result in 196,875 extra ballots and not over one million.
The commission could not explain why only presidential papers deserves a replacement if spoilt and not others.
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