The main fear is less rigging on polling day than pre-election intimidation: the army locked up tens of thousands of people ahead of municipal polls in August.
But the system was introduced with one main purpose - to eliminate the possibility of vote-rigging, and give the Kenyan electorate faith in the credibility of the count.
The hi-tech system was introduced with one main purpose - to eliminate the possibility of vote-rigging, and give the Kenyan electorate faith in the count - but our correspondent says the failure could end up having the opposite effect.