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              Odinga Running Mate Says Kenya Vote Count 'Doctored'

   by VOA News

   Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga's running mate says the
   vote-counting process from Monday's presidential election "lacks
   integrity" and should be stopped.
   Kalonzo Musyoka told reporters Thursday in Nairobi that his campaign
   has evidence the results have been "doctored," but said he is not
   making a call for protests.
   Kenya instituted a new electronic voting system for this election to
   speed up the counting process, but it broke down, leaving officials to
   tally the ballots by hand.
   Close to half of the estimated votes were tallied by early Thursday,
   showing Odinga's chief rival Uhuru Kenyatta leading by a 53 percent to
   42 percent margin.
   Officials say the final results could be released as early as Friday,
   but they legally have until Monday to finish the count.
   The winning candidate is required to secure more than 50 percent of all
   votes cast or face a second-round vote in April.
   The manual count has produced a far lower number of rejected ballots
   from a figure election officials gave late Tuesday - fewer than 40,000
   compared to the nearly 500,000 from the earlier provisional results.
   Despite some problems, international observers have described the vote
   as transparent and credible.
   Kenyatta, son of Kenya's first president and one of Africa's wealthiest
   men, faces trial in the International Criminal Court for allegedly
   bankrolling death squads that carried out reprisal attacks against
   opposition supporters after disputed 2007 polls.
   More than 1,000 people were killed in the violence while hundreds of
   thousands of others were forced to flee their homes.
   About 14 million Kenyans were eligible to vote in the elections for
   president, parliament and other key offices.  Both Odinga and Kenyatta
   have promised to respect the result of the vote.
   Monday's election was mostly peaceful, although just hours before
   voting began, at least 13 people, including seven police officers, were
   killed along Kenya's coast.  Kenyan police arraigned three suspects in
   court Tuesday.
   Election chairman Ahmed Issack Hassan said there were no reported
   incidents of violence during voting hours.  He also said voter turnout
   appears to have been above 70 percent.
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