IEBC LAUNCHES SMS service for voters to verify their registration status, voters required to send ID number to 70000. pic.twitter.com/0TiS8LjcM2
— Nation Breaking News (@NationBreaking) June 29, 2017
The IEBC has come under scrutiny minutes after saying Kenyans can check their voter registration status by texting ID or passport number to 70000.
"Both online and SMS methods of checking your registration details are available," the electoral body said via Twitter on Thursday.
More on this: Check registration status by texting ID or passport number to 70000 - IEBC
But many who sent random ID numbers to IEBC said they received startling feedback.
One said sending the number 0 presents the name Stanley Gitari Mucira of Kirinyaga county, Gichugu polling station and code 003.
When you send number three, you get the name Caroline Anyango Odhiambo of Mombasa county, Mvita polling station and code 032..
But numbers such as 45 result in the notification that there are no such records.
"...no records found. Please visit any IEBC offices near you for more information," read as text seen by The Star.
Some social media users asked the commission to explain what happened to the voters register audit.
"I have sent ID number 0 to that number and this is what I got. Nobody has ID number 0 so how was he registered," said Twitter user 'Coll_Odhiambo'.
'Lmutisya' demanded a credible saying this should not be the case after the "highly publicised audit of the register".
"I thought you were supposed to clean the voter register...I got the same results when I sent number 0 to 70000," presenter Mwanaisha Chidzuga? said.
Tony Watima? said: "Someone is registered with ID number 0 but with my ID number it tells me 'no records found'. IEBC, what games are these?"
The month-long voter verification drive by the IEBC ended on June 9 with only 20-30 per cent voters turning up.
Audit firm KPMG found there were at least a million dead people in the IEBC register but NASA said they did a shoddy job.
More on this: NASA raps KPMG for 'shoddy' audit, wants IEBC to publish list of dead voters
The commission said youths aged between 18 and 34 account for more than half the total number of voters registered for the August 8 polls.
The age group accounts for 9,930,315 valid voters from the total 19,611,423 registered.
More than 88,600 dead voters were later expunged.
In addition to finger print authentication, you'll need to present ID or Passport, whichever you registered with, on voting day.
— IEBC (@IEBCKenya) June 25, 2017
Safaricom hosting servers - is this illegal?
Are they even hosting it. They are domain name servers. It's good that we now have such in kenya for .ke. On this Omollo is wrong...there are few dns servers in kenya.
Are they even hosting it. They are domain name servers. It's good that we now have such in kenya for .ke. On this Omollo is wrong...there are few dns servers in kenya.Safaricom are hosting IEBC on their servers. PeriodSafaricom hosting servers - is this illegal?
Omollo is incoherent. Is it illegal for Safaricom to host servers? They are a well established business. He should suggest we host with Amazon or whatever but with very proper reason.Are they even hosting it. They are domain name servers. It's good that we now have such in kenya for .ke. On this Omollo is wrong...there are few dns servers in kenya.
I will educate you a bit:
In 2013 the IEBC was wholly hosted by a small unknown company. It turned out that the same company also hosted TNA in the same servers. The IEBC had no physical access or minute by minute control over the server.
The subsequent breakdown of the entire result and voter verification systems was attributed to many things but this had a role in it.
It therefore goes without saying that the IEBC could have acquired its own servers and not relied on a private company. There have been reports that Safaricom was working with Jubilee to intercept and doctor results or to engineer another breakdown in the voting system to allow for manual voting and vote stuffing.Omollo is incoherent. Is it illegal for Safaricom to host servers? They are a well established business. He should suggest we host with Amazon or whatever but with very proper reason.Are they even hosting it. They are domain name servers. It's good that we now have such in kenya for .ke. On this Omollo is wrong...there are few dns servers in kenya.
You cannot educate me on stuff server - try Logistics.