Turnout of 34.5 pct in Kenya vote re-run - election commission head

An elderly woman is assisted while casting her vote during a presidential election re-run in Gatundu, Kenya October 26, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola

NAIROBI (Reuters) - An estimated 6.55 million Kenyans voted in Thursday's presidential election re-run, just 34.5 percent of registered voters, Wafula Chebukati, election commission chairman, said on Twitter. Turnout in the August vote that was later annulled by the courts was 80 percent. Opposition leader Raila Odinga boycotted the re-run, saying the election commission had failed to change any of the key personnel involved in the botched first attempt. (Reporting by Ed Cropley; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)