By Nation Reporter
Posted Thursday, March 28 2013 at 22:00
Posted Thursday, March 28 2013 at 22:00
Re-tallying of votes from 22 polling stations at KICC in Nairobi has been finalised, High Court registrar Gladys Shollei has said.
Also, review of Forms 34 and Forms 36 as ordered by the Supreme Court on Monday has been concluded, she said.
But Mrs Shollei on Thursday could not disclose the results, saying it would be prejudicial to the ongoing hearings at the top court.
The results will be filed at the Supreme Court registry, and will show whether the number of votes cast exceeded the number of registered voters as alleged by Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord) lawyers.
Mrs Shollei gave the media access to the tallying centre yesterday, where clerks were wrapping up the exercise as party agents watched.
“We wanted the media to witness the final stages of this process,” said Judiciary Communications manager Naim Bilal Yassin.
Form 34 is a legal document that shows the votes obtained by each of the candidates at a polling centre, and the contenders’ agents are required to sign it after establishing that the results are accurate before it is forwarded to the national tallying centre.
Form 35 shows the results for governors, senators, county and women’s representatives while Form 36 gives a summary of the votes obtained by all candidates in constituencies.
The re-tallying started on Tuesday and the results were expected to be released by Wednesday evening but that did not happen because the clerks had not completed the work.
In the ruling on Monday, Mr Justice Smokin Wanjala said the aim of re-tallying was to show if the number of votes cast exceeded the number of listed voters.
The court on Tuesday issued restraining orders to political parties and other unauthorised people from entering the tallying centre.
This was after Cord lawyer James Orengo and activists Maina Kiai, George Kegoro and Gladwell Otieno, whose lobbies have filed petitions, attempted to enter the centre.
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