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

By Lynnet Okumu / Published August 8, 2022 | 10:22 am

KEY POINTS

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.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

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

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.

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

Vote more than once
Forge, deface, or destroy a ballot paper.
Supply ballot papers to any person without authority.
Sell or offer for sale any ballot paper
Purchase or offer to purchase any ballot paper from any person.
Destroy, open, dispose or interfere with any election material
Make markings on another voter’s ballot papers
Interfere with another voter while casting their vote
Be in possession of any ballot paper other than when voting
Drop into any ballot box anything other than the authorized ballot paper
Remove election material from a polling station before, during, or after the election
Be in possession of any appliance, device, or mechanism that can interfere with ballots
Take any ballot paper out of a polling station
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!