1.5 Elections in Kenya

• Guidelines governing elections in Kenya
• The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC)
• Roles and functions of the IEBC
• The electoral process in Kenya
• Election malpractices and measures to curb them

• identify the guidelines governing elections in Kenya
• describe the roles and functions of IEBC in Kenya
• elaborate the electoral processes in Kenya
• enumerate measures taken by IEBC in curbing election malpractices in management of elections
• appreciate the roles and functions of IEBC in Kenya

“Why are elections important?”

“Which values can citizens embrace to avoid election malpractices?”

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1. Election guidelines and the IEBC
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   What law governs elections in Kenya, and what the IEBC is required to do.
2. The electoral process and curbing malpractice
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   How an election is run from registration to declaration, what can go wrong, and what is done about it.
3. Why elections matter: transferring power without fighting
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   Elections are how a republic changes leaders by counting equal votes, and why the loser must be able to accept the count.
4. The 2010 framework: rights, principles and a referee
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   How Chapter 7, Articles 38, 81 and 88, and the five election statutes sit in a stack from Constitution to polling station.
5. Types of election: six ballots and other votes
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   Presidential, parliamentary, county, by-elections and referenda - what each chooses and how often.
6. Voter registration: getting on the roll
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   Who may register, how biometrics and inspection work, and why a name missing from the certified roll cannot vote.
7. An independent IEBC: who the referee is
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   Why the IEBC is a constitutional commission, how independence is protected, and what capture of the referee would mean.
8. IEBC functions in practice
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   Unpacking registration, delimitation, nominations, voter education, codes, finance and declaration as actual jobs, not a memorised list.
9. Nomination, campaigns and the code of conduct
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   How candidates get on the ballot, what campaigns may not do, and why money and insults in this stage already decide fairness.
10. Polling day and the secret ballot
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    How a voter is identified, issued with papers, marked in a booth, and watched by agents without anyone seeing the mark.
11. Count, tally, declare: from the station form to a winner
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    Why ballots are counted at the polling station, how forms and transmission work, and who declares which race.
12. Petitions: courts after declaration
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    Time limits, which court hears which race, and why the 2017 presidential annulment shows the referee must not judge itself.
13. Election malpractices before, during and after the poll
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    Naming offences by stage, who commits them, and why both the giver and the receiver of a bribe are in the wrong.
14. How the IEBC tries to curb malpractice
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    Technology, procedure, law and voter education as stacked measures - and why kits cannot replace integrity or independence.
15. Peaceful participation: integrity, unity and a school election
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    Citizen duties from registration to accepting a lawful result, and a school role-play that practises losing without a fight.