Kenya's new election date may change.
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The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) will potentially set a new date for Kenya's elections, which were initially scheduled for 17 October 2017. This comes after the two main political parties in Kenya refused to agree on the past election process.
The opposition party, National Super Alliance (NASA), last week addressed a letter to the IEBC with a list of demands which included the dismissal of certain officials, a change in the procurement of election materials, and live media coverage of the declaration of results at tallying centres.
The IEBC has been thrown into a spin as the demands will lead to an almost-complete overhaul of the election process, which includes buying 40,883 new ballot boxes. The body will also have to train more than 300,000 contract employees who will man the elections. Additionally, two different electronic systems used in the vote would have to be reinstalled for a re-run.
French-firm OT-Morpho has submitted a six-page report to the IEBC, in which it is detailing how long it will take to reconfigure the 45,000 kits for the fresh election.
An audit ordered by the Chief Justice David Maraga had found massive clerical errors in 42 of the 290 constituencies. These included missing names of the constituency, name of the constituency written by hand, lack of security features such as the serial number and watermark on results forms, cases where the IEBC stamp looks different and others where the form runs into several pages.
Kenyans on Twitter have expressed their concerns on how the French firm conducted the elections.
It's clear that no hacking took place in The just concluded Presidential election. I lost to Mr Uhuru,#MorphoFraudInKenya is just baseless. pic.twitter.com/Y1cpxvv0Yv
— Raila Odinga (@RailaOjinga) September 18, 2017
Kenyans must reject jubilee narrative that NASA is not ready for elections. This was yesterdays rally! Retweet if Ready
#MorphoFraudInKenya pic.twitter.com/im9JgYNzoq— Hon Lee Makwiny ™ (@leemakwiny) September 18, 2017
@Morpho sold the rights to access the servers to unwarranted persons. Thats why their audit confirmed No Hacking. #MorphoFraudInKenya
— Collins Munzatse (@CollinsMayieka) September 18, 2017
2. @Morpho claims to have audited @IEBCKenya servers without the Knowledge of Kenyans , How Now ? @FranceinKenya #MorphoFraudInKenya
— Charles Mark Dienya (@MarkDienya) September 18, 2017
3. That @Morpho can claim they Audited themselves when Kenyans are still waiting for Access of the Servers is OUTRAGEOUS #MorphoFraudInKenya
— Charles Mark Dienya (@MarkDienya) September 18, 2017
Queuing for same many hours then manpluating the will of Kenyans #MorphoFraudInKenya @morpho
— #ElvisNeverGetsMad (@ElvisNever) September 18, 2017
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