The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has now made it mandatory for every voter entering a polling station to receive six ballot papers for all elective seats.
IEBC stated that this would ensure that the number of votes cast for the other five elective seats match with the total presidential vote.
"The instructions have been included in our polling procedures for purposes of training polling clerks and presiding officers," IEBC Commissioner Rose Akombe stated.
"At the opening of the polling station, the presiding officers will show party agents the number of ballot papers issued and record them in the polling day diary, complete with the unique serial numbers. At the end of polling, the presiding officer will record the number of unused ballot papers and provide the same to the agents," she added.
After the last election Opposition leader Raila Odinga claimed that records showed that 10 million people voted for all the other candidates - governors, MPs, woman representatives, and MCAs - yet the same records show that 12 million people voted for the presidential candidates.
However, the then electoral commission dismissed the claims but admitted that there was a discrepancy of 458,085 votes between those who voted for the presidential candidates and the other five seats.
IEBC now wants to avoid a scenario where the turnout for the presidential seat will be relatively higher and thus raise suspicions of rigging.
IEBC Commissioner Paul Kurgat further stated that every voter will be identified using the Kenya Integrated Electoral Management System (KIEMS) thus there will be no need to cross out their names as that would have already been recorded.
"We will not be crossing the names of voters since that has already been recorded by the kit," Kurgat stated.
The commission highlighted that at three-hour intervals throughout the polling day, Presiding Officers will report to the Returning Officer the number of ballots issued and IEBC will track this against the voter turnout at that particular time.
Any inconsistencies will be detected immediately and action taken against the Presiding Officers in case of electoral offences.
MS Akombe noted that the commission will annul results from any polling station that has more ballots cast than the number of registered voters.
