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Kenya’s IEBC Uncovers 250,000 Dead Kenyans in Election Register
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Kenya’s IEBC Uncovers 250,000 Dead Kenyans in Election Register

Kenya's electoral agency says an ongoing audit of its voters' roll has found the names of nearly 250,000 deceased voters on the register. Nearly half a million more voters were found to have duplicate records and more than 226,000 people were registered using documents that do not belong to them. Others had registered with invalid documents, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) said in a statementon the anomalies that affect more than a million people. IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati said that because of the “implementation of the preliminary audit findings” the commission would delay certifying the final register for publication. Read Also: Pro-marijuana Candidate Cleared For Kenyan Poll The commission said earlier that it would publish the re...