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What a Conviction for an Election Offence Actually Costs You
The fine is not the expensive part. A conviction for an election offence in Kenya can bar a person from holding office, and that consequence outlives the sentence by years.
The Election Offences Only a Presiding Officer or Returning Officer Can Commit
*Updated 2 October 2026.* Some election offences require a badge. The Election Offences Act 2016 creates a class of crime that only a member or officer of the IEBC can commit, because the conduct is...
Impersonation and Multiple Voting: The Offences a Voter Can Commit
Most election offences in Kenya need a role. A handful can be committed by an ordinary voter with an ID and a queue, and they carry the same criminal weight as the ones committed by officials.
Treating: The Election Offence Kenyan Candidates Commit by Accident
A candidate who would never hand a voter cash will cheerfully hire fourteen matatus and feed nine hundred people. Kenyan law asks the same question about both.
Election Violence in Kenya: What Counts as an Offence, and Who Investigates
Violence at a Kenyan campaign event runs on two tracks at once: an ordinary criminal file, and a breach of the Electoral Code of Conduct. They are handled by different bodies, at different speeds.
Bribing a Voter Is a Crime. The Hard Part Is Knowing Where the Line Is.
Kenyan law does not prohibit generosity. It prohibits generosity with a purpose. The Election Offences Act reaches money, goods, jobs and favours, given directly or through somebody else.
What Disqualifies a Kenyan Candidate, Before and After Nomination
Two clocks run on a Kenyan candidacy. One can stop you reaching the ballot, and one can undo a result after you have won it. Most disqualifications are administrative, and almost all of them are avoidable.
Double Registration Is an Election Offence. Here's What the Law Says.
You may be registered as a voter once. Not once per county, once. How duplicate entries arise, how the Commission finds them, and what to do if you think you have one.