also conducting voter education in all the counties in a bid to mobilise as many voters as they could. Political parties also played a key role in mobilizing the people, especially the young people, to go and register. On the other hand the IEBC has also set up registration centres in Universities as deliberate efforts to target the youth. CSOs role in voter mobilization and voter education activities were hamstrung by lack of resources. The learning mission received reports that some political actors were interfering with the MVR exercise. Politicians from the ruling party were allegedly threatening to sack traditional chiefs in opposition strongholds who assist in mobilizing potential voters, while on the other hand threatening voters in the ruling party’s strongholds with unspecified action if they did not register. One of the Lessons that Zimbabwe can learn from these reports is the need to strictly enforce the code of conduct for political actors to ensure that their contribution to electoral process is within the parameters set by the legislative framework. This will help ensure that the playing field remains level. Part on the youth mobilization campaign: Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta doing the ‘swag’ dancing with youth dance crew at state house in January 2017. Conclusion Just like in many African countries, some of the Kenyans have little confidence in both the elections and the IEBC. The electoral processes are hugely politicized and the recently appointed need to deal with a plethora of issues including building trust and confidence of the electorate and stakeholders to enhance the credibility and legitimacy of elections. Absence of trust and confidence can directly affect key electoral processes such as voter registration and turn-out on polling day. Ellen Dingani works for the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) and was recently in Kenya observing the Mass Voter Registration process. She can be reached on info@zesn.net or ellenk@zesn.net. 5|Page