The new election law has now come into effect, giving the electoral commission wide ranging powers to clamp down on vote rigging and corruption. For example, the electoral agency will now have the power to order the arrest and prosecution of Cabinet ministers, their assistants and other government officials who use their official vehicles to campaign.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission will also have the authority to impound such vehicles. That means the two older laws which governed elections — the National Assembly and Presidential Elections Act and the Election Offences Act — are now repealed. Read on at source: Daily Nation
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