The Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has refuted claims the March 4 election it oversaw was not credible. The IEBC has insisted that the entire electoral process was robust, verifiable and transparent.
Paul Nyamodi one of the counsels for the commission denied claims made by Cord’s lead senior counsel George Oraro yesterday who alleged that the commission conducted voter registration beyond the stipulated December 18 deadline last year.
Nyamodi said that the only additional information was received but that no additional persons were registered as voters. Nyamodi also stated that the IEBC is allowed under law to make amendments to the voter register in the event of anomalies detected by an audit. Nyamodi further said that the register was available to the public between January 14 and 27 this year for people to verify that their details were correct.
He also stated that there was a principal register, the green book which was the primary data entry point for all persons being registered. He added that some biometric voter registers crashed and lost the data stored within, but that since this information had been entered in the green books, the voter were not likely to be disenfranchised.
Nyamodi also explained the special register as a list of persons whose biometric features such as fingerprints and fingers were missing. He said that this exception was made in order not to deny anyone his or her constitutional right to take part in the voting process.
Counsel Nani Mungai who was also acting on behalf of the IEBC, the second respondent in the Cord petition challenging the March 4 poll outcome, stated that the claim that the electronic aspect of the poll had its challenges but that it was not an entire failure. He pointed out that the green books were formulated from the biometric voter registration exercise and thus had some success.
He added that 45 per cent of the results were relayed electronically before the system eventually failed. He concluded by saying that there was no linkage between the IEBC, TNA and Kencall servers as had been claimed by the petitioners. The case continues in its last session before the judges withdraw to come up with a verdict.
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