Kenya is holding a presidential election rerun because the Supreme Court nullified the results of the August 8 poll, which was won by President Uhuru Kenyatta. The court said there were "irregularities and illegalities" in the voting process.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga, who masterminded the annulment, is boycotting Thursday Oct 26,2017 's rerun race because he says the electoral reforms he demanded never happened. His supporters have joined his protest and are not turning out to vote
The opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, has repeatedly charged that the first election was not free and fair. He thinks today's vote is also full of challenges, because the electoral body did not make the reforms he demanded. Because of this, he is boycotting the vote
The August 2017 Kenyan Presidential Election marked the first time Kenya used a new electronic voting system because, during previous elections, the electoral commission was often accusations of stealing votes. However, despite new system in place, the opposition contested this year's results. Odinga claimed hackers infiltrated the database of the election body to manipulate the "democratic process".
Odinga wanted reforms to make the vote credible, and demanded, for instance, top officials from the electoral commission to be removed
President Uhuru Kenyatta, who won 54 percent of the previous vote in August, and six of minor candidates - none of whom scored more than one percent in the previous poll.
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