Here is a list of What Not To Do On Tuesday When Voting

On Tuesday, August 9, Kenyans will wake up to go and cast their votes, a path anticipated bringing economic, social, and political change in the long run.

Among the 22,120,458 overall voters, about  7,483 are prisoners while 10,444 voters are expected to cast their ballots in Kenyan embassies and missions in the diaspora.

Kenyans will be choosing leaders across six elective seats; the president, governor, senator, member of National Assembly (MP), woman representative, and ward representative (MCA).

As a voter, you are expected to follow the guidelines enshrined in the Elections Act, 2016.

The act has laid down the offenses that a voter must not commit on election day.

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Here is a list of what you should not do on August 9, 2022, as stipulated in the Elections Act 2016.

1. Vote more than once
2. Forge, deface, or destroy a ballot paper.
3. Supply ballot papers to any person without authority.
4. Sell or offer for sale any ballot paper
5. Purchase or offer to purchase any ballot paper from any person.
6. Destroy, open, dispose or interfere with any election material
7. Make markings on another voter’s ballot papers
8. Interfere with another voter while casting their vote
9. Be in possession of any ballot paper other than when voting
10. Drop into any ballot box anything other than the authorized ballot paper
11. Remove election material from a polling station before, during, or after the election
12. Be in possession of any appliance, device, or mechanism that can interfere with ballots
13. Take any ballot paper out of a polling station
14. Print a ballot paper or what purports to be a ballot paper

Ensure that you familiarise yourself with the offenses to avoid getting yourself into trouble come tomorrow!

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