Kenya: Court Orders Partial Recount

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Kenya’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered a recount of votes in some constituencies in the March 4 presidential election. The election commission named Uhuru Kenyatta the winner of the election with 50.07 percent of the vote. The court heard arguments from civil society groups and the legal team of Mr. Kenyatta’s top opponent, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, over what they contended were failures by the election commission to conduct a free and fair election. The court will decide Tuesday how the recount of votes will be done. It ordered the recount of votes in 22 of the country’s 291 constituencies to see if any of the tallies exceed the number of registered voters, one of the complaints from Mr. Odinga’s team. The court also ordered scrutiny of the 33,400 forms that were used to record election results.