Kenya: Vendor raises the red flag over digital voter registry - Business Daily

Vendor raises the red flag over digital voter registry - Business Daily:

A US-based consultancy has cast doubt on plans by the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) to use technology to streamline its voter registration, saying task was impossible.

“From a pure time line perspective, it is believed the general task of accomplishing registering 18 million voters countrywide in less than nine weeks appears to be an impossible task,” said Brian Brucker, International Sales Manager at Election Systems & Software (ES&S).

The news follows the close of a tender for the services that saw 12 local and 14 international companies bid for the job of giving the country a digital voter registration solution. ...