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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: audacityofhope on August 05, 2022, 07:27:52 AM
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Audit Exposes 14 Mysterious Returning Officers Running IEBC Systems
By MUMBI MUTUKO on 4 August 2022 - 8:32 am
An audit of the IEBC Integrated Database Management System (IDMS) has unearthed 14 mysterious Returning Officers (ROs) running the system.
According to The Standard, audit firm KPMG conducted an independent examination and discovered that the digital voters register had over 2 million mysterious voters.
The report indicated that the mysterious Returning Officers were able to "transfer, delete, insert, trigger, truncate, and update the voters register at will," and "one user, Postgress, had superuser access privileges."
According to the report, KPMG also discovered that the 14 Returning Officers were not gazetted but had worked alongside 290 IEBC officers in charge of the constituencies in previous elections.
The audit also revealed that the ‘digital’ ROs were backed by 513 generic accounts in the IDMS against 9 genuine accounts and had access to the voters’ register in the IDMS.
"In the IEBC's official Integrated Database Management System, the mysterious ROs are referred to as 'Embakasi South clerks' and 'IT users'," KPMG stated.
“Two RO accounts named Balambala-ro and Mbalambala-ro existed in the system. Only one Balambala is gazetted."
These voters registered using duplicate or fake documents while other people registered twice in previous elections.
“The officers had the elevated privileges in IEBC IDMs to transfer, change voter particulars and deactivate deceased voters and the constituency,” the audit report added as reported by The Standard.
Auditors also found that during the cleaning of the voters’ register, new voters were re-registered mysteriously.
KPMG also noted that the IDMS database was not set up to delete inactive accounts after 90 days as required by IEBC policy, and this made it more uncomplicated for those who had left the IEBC to gain access to the system.
“The total records within the Smartmatic register of voters that were provided to KPMG on May 5 was 21,970 597, including all biographic and biometric details.
"Smartmatic undertook duplication of the 2,184,472 records against the 21,970,597 records to generate a fully deduplicated register containing 21,710,728 voters, which was given to KPMG on May 18,” the report stated.
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Manual register was long conceded but protocols are tight.
It simply wont be used.
Because apart from being the final resort.
One has to stand, have their picture taken with ID on their chest, and lots of signatures.
As for IT systems - this is a manual election - so folks should not over invest in electronic part.
IT systems are more early warning or information systems...because ultimately manual processes are final
The ballot will be cast & counted manually, results form filled manually, taken to Nairobi manually, tallied manually, and those are final results.
I would spend more resources guarding the manual systems - ensuring casting, counting, transportation and calculation in Nairobi is rig proof.
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DPP orders investigations into voter transfer (https://nation.africa/kenya/news/politics/dpp-orders-investigations-into-voter-transfer-3903444)
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Ruto is very correctly scared of manual register. It has been used to cheat many times before.
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Ruto is very correctly scared of manual register. It has been used to cheat many times before.
You can say that again 🤣🤣🤣
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Ruto is very correctly scared of manual register. It has been used to cheat many times before.
You can say that again 🤣🤣🤣
One of his scary ogres is Joe Mucheru of ICT. If he switches off internet and power... like he switched off TV signal during the Vagina Ruto monologue at the presidential debate.