Nairobi — Observers found some technical problems but no evidence of vote-rigging in Kenya’s presidential election last month, the EU said on Thursday, based on random checks of tallies from polling stations. The finding was announced as Kenya gears up for a rerun of the contest between President Uhuru Kenyatta and challenger Raila Odinga on October 17, after the Supreme Court nullified Kenyatta’s victory citing irregularities in the tallying process. Credible elections would boost Kenya’s role as East Africa’s richest economy and a stable Western ally in a region roiled by conflict. But problems with the vote could spark unrest: 1,200 people died in violence after a disputed 2007 election. Bolstering the court’s findings of technical irregularities, the EU said in a statement it had examined 1,558 randomly selected scanned polling station results forms from 82 constituencies. A small percentage were unreadable, others had mathematical mistakes, and others were missing data or signa...
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