The Electoral Commission has alerted the Met about "potential fraudulent registration of voters" in Tower Hamlets.
Changes in the rules governing the registration of voters now mean that people have to positively apply to be included on the electoral role.
Some observers had expected a low registration of voters because of apathy following the 2007-08 violence, but campaigns by Kenyatta, Odinga and other presidential candidates led to the highest registration in the country ever.
Across the country, efforts to suppress the turnout and registration of minority voters wage on, making that fight as urgent today as it was in the era of literacy tests and poll taxes.
In the second election, Ms Bock won by just 327 votes in a district in which Green Party registration is a mere 1.2% of voters.
During the recount, charges flew that Republican officials targeted precincts with mostly black voters for intense scrutiny of voter registration lists.
Thanks to a ballot initiative in 1996, voters will chose between all candidates regardless of their party registration.
This decision may have allowed some additional registration, but it is clear that thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of voters have been disfranchised by new citizenship requirements, the displacement of farm labourers and the government's refusal to accept postal votes.
Stories circulated about black voters being pushed off voting registration lists, improperly instructed to fill in both sides of ballots and allegedly even intimidated by police loitering near polling places on Election Day.
The federal "Motor Voter" law, enacted in 1993 to expand voter registration, allows would-be voters to fill out a mail-in voter registration card and swear they are citizens under penalty of perjury, but it doesn't require them to show proof.
So has Florida, which has not only tried to restrict voter-registration drives but also limited early voting and sought to purge ineligible voters from its rolls, using a list full of errors (that effort has been suspended).
At stake in these battles is not simply what form of identification voters must remember to put in their pockets on election day, or what information voter-registration volunteers must remember to include on their forms, but possibly the presidency itself.
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