12:23 pm – at St. Teresa Girls’, Mathare Constituency’s tallying center, the enumeration process is extremely slow. Presiding Officers say they’ve been waiting since 6 am. Not all forms 34A have been submitted and cleared. Presiding Officers estimate they will be here till evening.

1:46 pm – at the Dandora Sec. School, Embakasi North Constituency’s tallying center. There are similar long queues of uncleared ballot boxes. The Deputy Returning Officer says they have tallied results from 52 out of 170 polling stations. She estimates the count will be done around 10 pm.

3:12 pm – at Komarock School, the Embakasi Central tallying center, the plan is to clear paperwork first and then sort out strategic material such as the A series forms, in an attempt to speed up the tallying process. So far, only results from 74 out of 215 polling stations have been tallied.

3:47 pm – at Busara Primary School, which is the tallying center for Embakasi West constituency, the elongated pile of ballot boxes, stacked on top of each other, towers above me.

4:48 pm – only 65 out of the 237 polling stations from Embakasi East constituency have been cleared by the Returning Officer. At the East African School of Aviation, the constituency tallying center, a Presiding Officer says he has barely eaten for three days now and badly needs a shower.

6:12 pm – out of 214 polling stations, the Embakasi South constituency tallying center has managed to tally results from only 48 polling stations. Presiding officers at the Mukuru Community Center Primary School predict they will need another 24 hours, at best.

7:05 pm – Tallying still ongoing at Aquinas High School, the Makadara Constituency’s tallying center. The Returning Officer has only ratified 37 out of 137 polling stations. Presiding Officers say the late submission of material from certain polling stations is to blame for slowing down the tallying process.