•The agency has set five desks where verification of the received results will be done against the original documents.
•Chebukati said the announcement of the president-elect has to be done within seven days after the voting exercise.
IEBC has dispatched choppers to pick up returning officers who are expected at the Bomas of Kenya national tallying centre.
The choppers were dispatched on Thursday evening.
IEBC had begun verification of physical Forms 34A and the returning officers are the key people with these forms.
Without the forms, the tallying at the Bomas of Kenya can be delayed.
This is the first form used to tabulate the results of the presidential election from each polling station.
46,229 polling stations nationwide are expected to submit their Forms 34A.
The form contains details of the votes garnered by each candidate and also details the total number of registered voters in that station, the rejected votes, the objected ones, the disputed and the valid ones.
The Commission has to ascertain the figures in the physical forms match that which is in the digital form transmitted to the public portal maintained by the electoral agency.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairperson Wafula Chebukati urged Kenyans to be patient as they wait for the presidential results.
The agency has set five desks where verification of the received results will be done against the original documents.
Chebukati said the announcement of the president-elect has to be done within seven days after the voting exercise.