Nairobi, May 24 -- Three events this past week have brought the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) into focus.
First, the selection panel hiring four IEBC commissioners said it received more than 700 applications. Secondly, the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) judgment that declared the process unconstitutional.
Five High Court judges ruled that the IEBC was not properly constituted for lacking the quorum of commissioners to transact business. Thirdly, the by-elections, especially the Juja one where the IEBC chairman addressed cases of election violence.
Unlike the previous elections since the adoption of the 2010 Constitution and even before, the elections body has not been in the frontline of national discourse.
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