In Summary
- An IT expert at IEBC, who could not be named because he is not authorised to speak to the media, said information which would be relayed on Safaricom and Airtel servers, would be encrypted to ensure no one can have access to it on its way to the tallying centre.
The electoral commission has hired three international experts to test its electronic results tallying system to ensure it is not overwhelmed or open to hacking on voting day.
One of the experts from South Africa has begun work on the system, which according to sources at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, had been developed by IT experts within the organisation.
Real time results
The system used to relay results in real time during the 2010 referendum and the by-elections in three constituencies, will be put to test at a larger scale when Kenyans vote in the country’s biggest election on March 4.
An IT expert at IEBC, who could not be named because he is not authorised to speak to the media, said information which would be relayed on Safaricom and Airtel servers, would be encrypted to ensure no one can have access to it on its way to the tallying centre.
“The information will go through the network service providers (Safaricom and Airtel) but would be encrypted and secure from outside interference,” he said.
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