肯尼亞年總統大選重新投票
Kenyans are casting their ballots in the repeat of the East African nation's presidential election, despite calls from the opposition leader to boycott Thursday's repeat vote.
The country's Supreme Court invalidated the results of the August 8 election because of what it called "irregularities and illegalities" by Kenya's electoral commission, known by its acronym IEBC.
But the re-vote itself has been thrown into chaos. Opposition leader Raila Odinga withdrew his candidacy two weeks ago, arguing that the IEBC had not made improvements. A week later, electoral commission member Roselyn Akombe resigned and fled the country, saying the embattled commission is "under siege" from infighting and political intimidation.
Odinga issued a statement on the eve of the election calling for a "resistance movement" against the vote.
The high court was set to hear a petition Wednesday filed by three registered voters to stop the re-vote, but the hearing was called off after Chief Justice David Maraga said the court lacked a quorum to do so.肯尼亞選民參加總統大選的重新投票。反對派領袖呼籲抵制星期四的投票。
肯尼亞最高法院宣佈8月8號的選舉結果無效，因爲肯尼亞選舉委員會有舞弊和非法行爲。
但是重新投票也陷入混亂。反對派領袖奧廷加兩星期前退出選舉，稱選舉委員會沒有任何改進。一星期後，選舉委員會委員阿康比宣佈辭職並離開肯尼亞。她說，陷入困境的選舉委員會充滿內鬥和政治恫嚇。
奧廷加在重新投票前夕發表了一份聲明，呼籲對投票展開一場抵制運動。
肯尼亞最高法院原定於星期三對要求停止重新投票的三名選民訴訟案進行庭審，但是首席法官馬拉加說法庭未達法定人數，因此庭審取消。
