Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission IEBC will on Monday roll out mass voter registration targeting between six to seven million new voters.

The process will be officially unveiled in Nakuru County, and will end on November 2.

The registration exercise will take place in all the 1,450 wards in 47 counties with each ward attended to by two voter mobilizers.

A kit movement schedule will be issued across the 1,450 wards to reach the targeted voter registration.

The commission has confirmed that Kenyans who attained the age of 18 years from 2017 and onwards and got their ID cards will be registered as voters ahead of next year's general elections.

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The newly registered voters will be issued with acknowledgement letters.

According to the static data presented before the National Assembly by IEBC, the number of registered voters stood at 19,687,885 as of May this year.

The commission noted that a total of 149,600 citizens had been listed as voters across the country as of the 2017 elections.

The commission will also conduct mass voter registration for Kenyans living abroad in December.

The IEBC is also set to include new countries in its diaspora list including South Sudan, the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates if they will meet the expected quorum of 3000 voters.

Registration is also set to take place in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Africa, which took part in the 2017 general election.