The polls agency expects the last batch of all materials to be used in the election to arrive by Wednesday.
Training of presiding officers and their deputies started on Sunday across the country and is set to continue until Wednesday when that of the polling clerks is set to begin.
The agency has recruited up to 300,000 temporary election officials for in readiness for the election.
The commission has already started the distribution of Kenya Integrated Election Management System kits that will identify voters and transmit results.
Also being deployed are non-strategic materials which are crucial on the voting day.
There are 55,000 Kiems kits, with each of the 47,000 polling stations set to have one.
Distribution of essential ballot materials to the polling stations is always done a day to the election.
IEBC chairperson Wafula Chebulati last week said some 70 million out of the 132 million ballots have already been delivered to its national warehouse in Nairobi.
A total of 865 pallets for the presidential ballot papers are being shipped into the country by both private cargo and commercial planes.
All diaspora ballots arrived at the JKIA on July 28 and will be flown back to various destinations in the 12 foreign countries this week.
“Diaspora ballot papers will be ferried to Nairobi first before being distributed to the respective countries,” IEBC vice chairperson Juliana Cherera said when she received the first batch of the presidential materials at JKIA.
While addressing the press at the Bomas of Kenya on Friday, Chebukati said forms 34B, which are managed by the constituency returning officers, are currently being printed and set to be delivered alongside other ballot materials to the constituencies this week.
Chebukati also said apart from each of the agents of presidential candidates getting a copy of forms 34A, presiding officers will ensure that a photocopy is pasted on the door of the polling station after the final vote count.
The chairperson at the same time sought to dismiss claims that some Kiems kits are missing, saying save for only one that was reported in Nakuru, all others have been accounted for.
“The records of the biometric voter registration (BVR) kits that were purchased back in 2012 shows that there is a difference [of] 3,000, but that is an audit query and it has been communicated to the auditor general,” Chebukati said.
He further said a register of voters is available for sale with the commission having already sold copies to political parties, candidates and other stakeholders.
On Sunday, the commission unveiled a communication and media centres, where it will be issuing daily briefings in the countdown to the polls.
“I look forward to fair reporting, especially with numbers and figures...We shall be engaging here daily as all the commissioners will be available to answer questions,” he said.
Toll numbers for members of the public, he added, will be provided.
The commission has already trained staff to work at the call centre.
“We have been challenged more than often on the way we manage the elections and so the two important centres will help in dealing with misinformation and disinformation, and closing the gap on what the voters, general public and international community expects as compared to what the commission is communicating,” CEO Marjan Hussein said.
(edited by Amol Awuor)
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