Polls start to close after day of voting in Kenya

Record ID: 905639

  • Title: Polls start to close after day of voting in Kenya
  • Date: 8th August 2017
  • Summary: NAIROBI, KENYA (AUGUST 8, 2017) (REUTERS) INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES COMMISSION (IEBC) PRESIDING OFFICER OPENING BALLOT BOX FOR PRESIDENTIAL BALLOTS PRESIDING OFFICER POURING OUT BALLOTS VARIOUS OF PRESIDING OFFICER SORTING BALLOT PAPERS AND CALLING OUT CANDIDATES NAMES AS SHE SEES THEM VARIOUS OF AGENTS AND OBSERVERS LOOKING ON
  • Embargoed: 22nd August 2017 17:20
  • Keywords: poll closing vote counting Kenya election Uhuru Kenyatta Raila Odinga
  • Location: NAIROBI, KENYA
  • City: NAIROBI, KENYA
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016TAS4LJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Some polling stations have started sorting presidential ballot papers for counting after voters came out in large numbers on Tuesday (August 8) for an electoral showdown between the country's foremost political dynasties.
    Shrouded in fears of violence, the vote pits President Uhuru Kenyatta, the 55-year-old businessman son of Kenya's founding president, against Raila Odinga, a 72-year-old former political prisoner and son of Kenya's first vice-president.
    The rivals are facing each other for the second time, with opinion polls putting them neck-and-neck after two months of campaigning marked by fiery rhetoric but public speeches largely free of the ethnic hate that has sullied previous contests.
    Voting mostly started smoothly, the election commission said, despite some isolated incidents and delays.
    The winner needs one vote more than 50 percent, and to win at least a quarter of the vote in 24 of Kenya's 47 counties.
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