Kenyan officials have announced that he country will distribute over 7,000 Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits for the mass voter registration exercise that started on Monday.The smallest ward will receive 3 BVR kits, while the largest will receive 10 kits. IEBC is determined to pull all resources at its disposal to help it achieve its target of registering between 4 to 6 Million new voters. The exercise is also set to last for 15 days.”A total of 7,793 BVR kits will be deployed countrywide based on the County Assembly Ward size. In the MVR I, the Commission deployed 5,756 kits which were not optimally utilised given the constraints of budget. The consequence was such that 2 kits ended up at one registration centre. This time round, a kit will serve one registration centre at a time” IEBC Chief Executive Officer Ezra Chiloba.Unlike in other registration exercise where a voter was required to register in the ward they intend to vote, the IEBC has allowed registration in any ward as long as it is in a constituency where you intend to vote.In response to fears that the insistence on biometric registration and identification of voters would lock out a section of people living with disability, Chiloba says IEBC has devised procedures and programmes to register them.The IEBC has also engaged 21,000 staff who will aid the process of registration across the country.”The Commission will deploy over 21,421 staff for the exercise. This includes 290 Registration Officers, 290 Assistant Registration Officers, 1,775 Voter Registration Assistants, 2,900 Ward-Based Voter Educators, 580 ICT Support Assistants and 15,586 Clerks” he tabulated.

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