Kenya Kenya’s Election: Nationwide Polls See High Turnout, Limited Violence March 04, 20130 prev1 of 14next Riccardo Gangale / APA Masaai woman casts her vote in a general election in Ilbissil, Kenya, March 4, 2013. Share Read Later Five years after more than 1,000 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans went to the polls on Monday to begin casting votes in a nationwide election seen as the country’s most important — and complicated — in its 50-year history.