Kenyans went to the polls yesterday (8/August) and as
results started trickling in through an online portal the incumbent, president
Uhuru Kenyatta seemed to take a significant lead over his opponent, Raila
Odinga, stabilizing around 1.2 million votes with 90% of presidential election
results relayed.
The Odinga team rejected the results, claiming a breach in
election law where any results transmitted should be accompanied by a form 34A,
signed by agents of the candidates at each polling station.
Around midday today (9/August), the opposition leader (Raila
Odinga) claimed their secretariat has identified hacking of the IEBC database
using the identity of their ICT manager who was murdered a week to the
elections to force statistics to favor the incumbent.
The elections management body reaffirmed that the relayed
results on the web portal are not final and that they will be scrutinizing the
paper trail of the election (each of the polling station must fill a form34A,
which is signed by all party agents present after the vote tally is finalized
and relayed over GSM network). This may take 7 days (or less) as required by
Kenyan electoral laws.
The election hacking allegations to manipulate figures for
the incumbent will take centre stage in the days or months ahead as Kenya tries
to reconcile digital and paper trail evidence. This is against the hope that
the country will hold together, with Kenya having a history of election related
violence, the latest being ten years ago involving the same opposition leader,
Raila Odinga.
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