NAIROBI Cheap New Balance 574 , July 28 (Xinhua) -- The Kenyan Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) on Friday announced a raft of measures that will be implemented to ensure the Aug. 8 polls are free from any form of malpractices.
Wafula Chebukati, the Chairman of IEBC said at a briefing on election preparedness that adequate safeguards are in place to enhance transparency in the forthcoming polls.
"We are cognizant of both operational and technological risks that we may face during the upcoming polls and have put strict measures in place in order to deliver free, credible and transparent elections," said Chebukati.
Foreign diplomats New Balance 574 Shoes , members of the civil society and media attended Kenya's electoral agency's briefing that sought to reaffirm its preparedness to facilitate transparent national polls in August.
Chebukati said the electoral body has been collecting views from the public and other interested parties to help improve its technical and managerial capacity to oversee elections that are expected to be hotly contested.
"The commission will promptly address concerns raised by Kenyans in regard to improving the credibility of forthcoming polls. The public has raised issue related to the reliability of technology that will transmit results and security at polling stations," Chebukati said.
He assured the public the electoral agency has invested in state of the art technology to enhance voter identification and transmission of Presidential results from over 40,000 polling stations countrywide to the national tallying centre in Nairobi.
"We have heavily invested in backup system to ensure that tallying of votes is not interrupted in case of power failure. The commission has engaged three leading internet service providers to enhance seamless transmission of results," said Chebukati.
He added that the electoral agency has trained over 350 New Balance 574 Red ,000 personnel who will be deployed to polling stations countrywide to oversee the voting exercise.
Regarding security during the upcoming national polls, Chebukati said that two police officers will be deployed in every polling station to avert fracas and other electoral malpractices.
Kenyans are gearing up for the August polls to elect a new President, Lawmakers, County executives and Ward representatives.
The electoral body has already set up supportive infrastructure to enable 19.5 million registered voters countrywide to cast their ballots to elect new office bearers.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended higher on Tuesday, the first trading day of the month, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed toward a fresh record and approached another milestone.
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This earning season has been robust so far and has been broadly supportive of stocks markets recently.
Latest data from Thomson Reuters showed that the S&P 500 companies' blended earnings in the second quarter of 2017 are expected to rise 10.9 percent year on year, while the revenues are forecast to increase 4.9 percent.
Dow notched record high these two sessions amid upbeat earnings, but some analysts said the tech sector might continue to face pressure from profit-taking.
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The manufacturing index, also known as the purchasing managers index (PMI), registered 56.3 in July, down from June's reading of 57.8, said the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).
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MADRID, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Sergio Ramos was Real Madrid's hero as they defeated Malaga 2-1 in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium to ensure they reach the midway point of the season as leaders of the Liga Santander.
The central defender, who last weekend scored an own goal as Madrid lost 2-1 away to Sevilla, scored a powerful header to open the scoring in the 35th minute of the game and was then on hand to poke home the second three minutes before halftime, although replays showed he and two other Madrid players were all offside.
Real Madrid went into the game after defeats against Sevilla and Celta Vigo in the past 7 days brought their 40 game unbeaten run to an abrupt halt, but coach Zinedine Zidane resisted the temptation to make sweeping changes to his starting 11 against a rival that travelled to Madrid wit.