According to the commission, the details of polling station ‘error,’ and lack of streams details, is due to ongoing voter registration but will soon reflect when the exercise ends.
“Why are your voter verification results showing your polling station and stream are “Not Applicable (N/A)“? This is because voter registration is going on,” the IEBC said in a public notice.
“Once voter registration concludes, the commission will split registration/polling centres into polling stations (streams) of up to a maximum of 700 voters. The Final Register will be published with your specific polling station and stream number.”
IEBC was responding to complaints among Kenyans on social media who have been expressing frustrations and fears after searching their registration data only to miss the key details.
The electoral agency sought to calm the fears asking the public not to worry as the register will be updated soon; “Usi-tense! Hapa Kazi tu!”
Just a week ago, the commission was in the eye of the storm after a controversial statement that voters who registered before 2012 and were not captured in the biometric register are required to register afresh in the ongoing voter registration exercise.
IEBC then explained that Kenyans who registered before 2012 do not need to re-register if they were enrolled in the biometric system introduced after the promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 and the subsequent boundaries delimitation in 2012.
“Should those who registered before 2012 as voters need to register afresh? Not at all unless they did not register as voters from 2012 when the new Register of Voters was established,” the commission said in its clarification.
The electoral body emphasised that the biometric register of voters has been in use since 2013 and remains the official register for elections in Kenya.
As of the 2022 general elections, the commission maintained an audited register comprising 22,120,458 voters, demonstrating the continued reliance on the biometric system.
"So we have not asked all old voters pre-2012 to register a fresh. Just those few who might have missed registering in 2012 and who, subsequently, have never registered under the Biometric system to date," the commission said.
As of March 23, Nairobi led with 49,055 new registrations, followed by Kiambu county with 20,404, together accounting for 27 per cent of new voters recorded.
As of April 2, IEBC confirmed it had registered 344,316 new voters in the Enhanced Mass Voter Registarion, aiming to reach 2.5 million by 2027.
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