Photos: Kenya Votes

March 4, 2013

Masai wait to cast ballot papers outside a polling station during the presidential and parliamentary elections near town of Magadi some 85 km (53 miles) south of Nairobi. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

People cast their votes near the end of the day during the Kenyan general elections at the Wabera primary school in Isiolo, northern Kenya March 4, 2013. At least 15 people were killed in attacks by machete-wielding gangs on Monday as millions of Kenyans voted in the first presidential election since a disputed 2007 poll unleashed weeks of tribal bloodshed. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola

A woman casts her ballot inside a polling station in Kenya's town of Gatundu March 4, 2013. Polling stations opened up to Kenyans on Monday for a tense presidential election that will test whether the east African nation can repair its damaged reputation after the tribal blood-letting that followed a 2007 poll. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

A Masai woman holds her ID card as she waits to cast her ballot in a polling station during the presidential and parliamentary elections near town of Magadi some 85 km (53 miles) south of Nairobi. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

A woman casts her vote during the Kenyan general elections at the Girgir primary school in Archers Post, Isiolo County in northern Kenya March 4, 2013. Polling stations opened up to Kenyans on Monday for a tense presidential election that will test whether the east African nation can repair its damaged reputation after the tribal blood-letting that followed a 2007 poll. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola

Kenyans in the Dandora neighborhood of Nairobi wait to vote at James Gichuru Primary School on March 4, 2013. Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn to vote Monday in critical elections, the first since violent polls five years ago, with five policemen killed in an ambush in Mombasa hours before polling started. Jennifer Huxta/AFP/Getty Images

Staff from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) prepare for the opening of a polling station in the Langata constituency of Nairobi, Kenya on March 4, 2013. Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence racked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007 to 2008 post poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed, with observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images

Close up of Hawa Hassan's, a Nubian born in Kibera in 1953, identity card as she gets ready to vote at the Old Kibera Primary School in Nairobi on March 4, 2013 during the nationwide elections. Nubians, originally from Sudan, have suffered statelessness for many years in Kenya since they were brought into the country as soldiers for the British in the early 1900s and settled in 'Kibra' meaning 'forest' in Nubian. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed and observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. Georgina Goodwin/AFP/Getty Images

Voters stand in line to vote at Manyatta Primary School polling station in west Nairobi at dawn on March 4, 2013 during the elections. Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-racked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed, with observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. Georgina Goodwin/AFP/Getty Images

After voting at Eastleigh High School in the Eastleigh neighborhood of Nairobi, a Somali-Kenyan woman's hand is marked with ink on March 4, 2013 during the elections. Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-racked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed, with observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. Jennifer Huxta/AFP/Getty Images

A presiding officer is pictured here handing a ballot paper marked with a vote for presidential candidate Raila Odinga to an assistant at the Olympic Primary School in Kibera, Nairobi on March 4, 2013. Long lines of Kenyans queued from long before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since violence-wracked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush marring the key ballot.The tense elections -- and the all-important reception of the results -- are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed. Will Boase/AFP/Getty Images

Kenyan Somali lady walks with her ballot cards in the Eastleigh district of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on March 4, 2013 during the nationwide elections. Eastleigh is known locally as "Little Mogadishu" due to the number of ethnic and national Somalis living there, and has been the site of several grenade attacks since Kenyan forces invaded neighbouring Somalia in October 2011. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed and observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images

A woman casts her ballot inside a polling centre during the presidential and parliamentary elections at Manyatta Primary school in Kisumu, 350km (218 miles) west of the capital Nairobi, March 4, 2013. Polling stations opened up to Kenyans on Monday for a tense presidential election that will test whether the east African nation can repair its damaged reputation after the tribal blood-letting that followed a 2007 poll. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Kenyans wait in line to cast their votes in the Kibera slum in the capital Nairobi March 4, 2013. Polling stations opened up to Kenyans on Monday for a tense presidential election that will test whether the east African nation can repair its damaged reputation after the tribal blood-letting that followed a 2007 poll. REUTERS/Steve Crisp

An elederly Maasai woman is watched over by an IEBC official as she casts her vote in Ilngarooj, Kajiado County, Maasailand, on March 4, 2013 during the nationwide elections. Long lines of Kenyans queued from way before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-wracked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed and observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images

Kenyans sit in a bus-stop decorated with election posters as voters queue to cast their ballot in the Langata constituency of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on March 4, 2013 during the elections. Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-racked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed, with observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images

Kenyan voters queue to cast their ballots during the presidential and parliamentary elections at the Manyatta Primary school in Kisumu, 350km (218 miles) west of the capital Nairobi, March 4, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

A Somali-Kenyan woman in the Eastleigh neighborhood of Nairobi votes at Eastleigh High School during the elections on March 4, 2013. Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-racked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed, with observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. Jennifer Huxta/AFP/Getty Images

Maasai tribes-people leave after voting in Ilngarooj, Kajiado South County, Maasailand, on March 4, 2013 during Kenya's elections. Long lines of Kenyans queued from way before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-wracked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed and observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images

Kenya's Deputy Prime Minister and presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta arrives to cast his vote at the Mutomo primary school in Kiambu, north of Nairobi on March 4, 2013 during the nationwide elections. Kenyans went out to vote for presidential, gubernatorial, senatorial elections on March 4, the first since bloody post-poll violence five years ago in which more than 1,100 people died after contested results. SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images

Journalists and polling staff look on as Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga, candidate for the country's presidency, casts his vote at the Old Kibera Primary School voting centre in his constituency of Kibera, Nairobi on March 4, 2013. Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-racked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed, with observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. Will Boase/AFP/Getty Images

A man shows his marked finger after he voted at a polling station in Kisumu, western Kenya on March 4, 2013 during the nationwide elections. Long lines of Kenyans queued from way before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-wracked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed and observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. Till Muellenmeister/AFP/Getty Images

An official from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) holds up a ballot paper as they count after voting close for presidential and parliamentary elections in Kisumu, 350 km (218 miles) west of the capital Nairobi, March 4, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Voters queue to cast their ballot at St. Matthews church in the Langata constituency of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on March 4, 2013 during the elections. Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-racked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed, with observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images

Kenyans in the Dandora neighborhood of Nairobi register to vote at Dandora Secondary School in Nairobi during the elections on March 4, 2013. Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-racked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed, with observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. Jennifer Huxta/AFP/Getty Images

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) officials verify a woman's identity before voting at Dandora Secondary School in Nairobi during the elections on March 4, 2013. Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-racked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed, with observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. Jennifer Huxta/AFP/Getty Images

A white Kenyan voter casts her ballot in the Langata constituency of Nairobi, Kenya's capital, on March 4, 2013 during the Kenyan elections. Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-racked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed, with observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images

Voters queue to cast their ballot at St. Matthews Church in the Langata constituency of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on March 4, 2013 during the Kenyan elections. Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-racked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed, with observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images

A Kenyan soldier keeps watch as voters queue outside a polling station at Old Kibera Primary School in the constituency of Kibera, Nairobi on March 4, 2013 during the nationwide elections. Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn to vote Monday in critical elections, the first since violent polls five years ago, with five policemen killed in an ambush in Mombasa hours before polling started. The tense elections are seen as a key test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed, with observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. Will Boase/AFP/Getty Images

People stand in line to cast their vote at a polling stations in Kisumu, western Kenya on March 4, 2013 during the nationwide elections. Long lines of Kenyans queued from way before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-wracked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed and observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. Till Muellenmeister/AFP/Getty Images

A presiding officer from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) holds a ballot after emptying the box for counting at the South C polling station in Nairobi on March 4, 2013, the day of the Kenyan national elections. Long lines of Kenyans queued from long before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since violence-wracked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush marring the key ballot. The tense elections -- and the all-important reception of the results -- are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed. SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images

Officials from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) count ballot papers after voting closed for presidential and parliamentary elections, in Kibera slum, in the capital Nairobi March 4, 2013. At least 15 people were killed in attacks by machete-wielding gangs on Monday as millions of Kenyans voted in the first presidential election since a disputed 2007 poll unleashed weeks of tribal bloodshed. REUTERS/Noor Khamis

Poll officials count ballots at a polling centre following Kenya's national elections on March 4, 2013 in the country's western province in Kakamega. Long lines of Kenyans queued from way before dawn to vote today in the first election since the violence-wracked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed and observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images

A voting assistant stacks ballot papers marked with a vote for presidential candidate Raila Odinga to an assistant at the Olympic Primary School in Kibera, Nairobi on March 4, 2013. Long lines of Kenyans queued from long before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since violence-wracked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush marring the key ballot.The tense elections -- and the all-important reception of the results -- are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed. Will Boase/AFP/Getty Images

A Masai woman walks out of a polling station after she casts her ballot papers during the presidential and parliamentary elections near town of Magadi some 85 km (53 miles) south of Nairobi. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

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