NAIROBI, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Polls opened for Kenya's general election on Monday morning, the first after disputed presidential elections tally stirred up violence five years ago.
A total of 14.3 million Kenyan voters started casting their ballots to choose the country's fourth president, 290 members of parliament, 47 county governors, similar number of senators and women representatives and several hundred county representatives.
The polling stations opened at 6:00 a.m. local time (0300 GMT) and will close at 5:00 p.m. (1400 GMT) on Monday.
The election authority Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has set up 33,000 polling stations across the country and about 99,000 police officers have been deployed all over the country.
