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What Is a Polling Agent? Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities in Kenya Elections
Under Kenya's Elections Act, every candidate and political party is entitled to appoint one agent per polling station. T...
Post-Election Petitions in 2022: 200+ Cases That Went to Court
The 2022 election generated 203 petitions challenging results at every level. From the Supreme Court presidential challe...
Vote Buying in 2022: The Open Secret Everyone Knows But Nobody Stops
Vote buying is illegal in Kenya. It's also ubiquitous. In 2022, cash distribution during campaigns reached industrial sc...
The Women Rep Position: Kenya's Most Unique Electoral Experiment
The Women Representative seat is uniquely Kenyan — a constitutional compromise born from the two-thirds gender rule that...
Senator Races 2022: The Forgotten Contests That Shaped County Power
Kenya's Senate races rarely make headlines, but the 2022 results gave Kenya Kwanza a Senate majority that has shaped eve...
Data Integrity in 2022: How the Results Verification Process Actually Worked
From the moment a presiding officer finishes counting ballots to the moment the IEBC chairperson declares results at Bom...
Counting Irregularities: 15 Constituencies Where Results Were Contested
The 2022 election generated over 200 election petitions, but some constituencies stood out for the severity of their cou...
IEBC Under Siege: How the 2022 Election Exposed Institutional Weakness
A commission split 4-3 on results. Commissioners holding rival press conferences. A chairman physically accosted during...
Election Observers in 2022: What International Monitors Actually Found
The EU, AU, Commonwealth, and domestic observer groups all filed detailed reports on Kenya's 2022 election. What they ac...
The Cost of Running for Office in 2022: Campaign Finance Data Exposed
Kenya's 2022 elections were the most expensive in the country's history, with total campaign spending estimated at KES 1...
Election Day Violence Map: Where Kenya's Hotspots Were in 2022
Kenya's 2022 election was largely peaceful — but not entirely. At least 40 incidents of election-related violence were d...
The Servers Controversy: Real-Time Results Transmission in 2022
The 2022 results transmission system was Kenya's most advanced yet — KIEMS kits, 4G backup, and real-time portal uploads...