MPs reinstate ban on elections in ghost polling stations

The National Assembly’s Justice and Legal Affairs Committee has overturned a Senate decision and reinstated a provision that criminalises holding elections in ungazetted polling stations.

The original Election Offences (Amendment) Bill had proposed making it illegal for the IEBC to conduct votes in polling stations not officially published in the Kenya Gazette and publicised.

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