The IEBC (Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission) in Kenya is working hard to get voters the results of Tuesday's election for Prime Minister.

The IEBC is working hard to make sure the votes are tallied correctly in order to avoid an outbreak of violence over the election results.

The last Kenyan election in 2007 led to bloodshed because there was a lack of clarity in the way the votes were tallied.

The post-election ethnic violence resulted in the death of over 1,000 people and forced 60,000 people out of their homes.

Currently in the lead with 54% is candidate Uhuru Kenyatta. Kenyatta is facing charges for crimes against humanity due to his role in the violent outbreaks in 2007.

According to the New York Times, Kenyatta was "accused of financing death squads that moved house to house in early 2008, slaughtering opposition supporters and their families, including young children."

If Kenyatta were to win the Presidency, he would still have to answer for his actions in Kenyan court. If found guilty he would have to serve his sentence. As a result, the Kenyan president would be absent from office for large amount of time.

It is possible that Kenyatta's lead over his opponent and current Prime Minister Raila Odinga may be overturned. The IEBC still has to tally more votes; they are taking their time since Biometric Voter Identification System broke down during the balloting.

 "The IEBC is suffering technical problems and cannot get the information out to the public fast enough," Commissioner Ambassador Yusuf Nzibo told Voice of America.

"The problem is that we were introducing too many things at the same time, including a lot of changes that came in very late -- changes in law, changes in the Political Parties Act...  We have had challenges of batteries in the biometric equipment, this is a new system which has not been tested before."

Nizibo also told Voice of America "We are reassuring Kenyans that we shall not see a repeat of what happened in 2007 when documents were being tampered. This time around, we've been very transparent and the media has also helped us. But of course, there are complaints from the political parties, which we are addressing,"

Despite the desire to keep the Kenyan people from acting out in a violent way, there was already an incident on the coast of the Indian Ocean.

A riot erupted killing 12 people, including 6 police officers. A bomb was also detonated, but nobody was fatally wounded.

14 million Kenyan people were eligible to vote in this year's election. They were casting 6 ballots, including President, Parliamentarians, governors, senators, councilors and special women's representatives.

Kenya will have to work hard to keep a democratic government. Nearby countries like Somalia tried and failed when it came to democracy.