Narok Senator Ledama Ole Kina is now proposing the addition of voters’ names to the presidential ballot papers.
In a statement, the ODM senator said this measure will greatly reduce the theft of presidential votes, which takes place every time after the General Election.
The senator seemed surprised who voted for President William Ruto in the hotly contested 2022 presidential elections saying that all the Kenyans he has spoken to say they did not vote for him.
“Next time we must add names on ballot papers. Everyone I talk to says they never voted for this government. So who did?” Ole Kina posed.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) declared William Ruto the fifth president-elect after garnering 7.1 million votes.
Raila, who was perceived to be William Ruto’s main challenger, got 6.9 million votes, a 200,000 vote difference.
As such, the country’s longest-serving opposition leader filed a petition challenging the election of William Ruto alleging that hackers manipulated Kenya’s presidential poll results.
In his petition, Raila claimed that Ruto’s agents used technology to hack into the IEBC portal and manipulated results in his favor.
However, the Supreme Court dismissed Raila’s case challenging President Ruto’s election terming it a ‘hot air’.
It is worth noting that this was not the first time the country was facing allegations of vote-rigging.
After the 2007 elections, approximately one thousand Kenyans were reported to have lost their lives and thousands of others displaced.
This was after the then Electoral Commission of Kenya chairman Samwel Kivuitu declared the late Mwaki Kibaki as the president-elect.
The announcement triggered post-election violence that saw the then-presidential candidate Kalonzo Musyoka declare support for Kibaki, in a deal that brought back peace in the country.
