A High Court in Kisumu has ordered the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to respond to an application filed by three voters seeking to have the body declare presidential election results within seven hours to avert violence.
Justice David Majanja ordered the IEBC to file the required documents within seven days.
“We know Kenyans are entitled to free and credible elections. The matter will be heard on July 18,” he said.
The electoral body had not responded to the application nor given its written submissions.
ARGUE
Henry Kenei, representing the IEBC, said he will prepare the documents within the stipulated time to allow him to argue his case.
Titus Alila, Jackline Otieno and Francis Ogada had sued to compel the electoral agency to declare provisional presidential results within seven hours after closure of polling stations to avoid anxiety.
The petitioners argue the seven days allowed by the Constitution for the declaration of presidential results is too long.
The trio argue in the suit that delays in announcing the provisional election results could cause chaos.
They also claim delays would compromise the constitutional threshold for a free and fair election that must be transparent, efficient and accountable.
KIEMS
Through their advocate, Kenneth Amondi, they argue that the petition is of public interest because the public has invested Sh3.8 billion in the Kenya Integrated Election Management System (KIEMS) to ensure electronic results transmission of presidential election results from polling stations to the national tallying centre.
They said while the Constitution provides that presidential results be declared within seven days of the election, KIEMS would ensure that results from all polling stations are electronically transmitted and tallied within seven hours at the national tallying centre.
The presidential results will be announced at the polling stations then later at the constituency main tallying centre. The final declaration of the winners will be made at the national tallying centre in Nairobi.
“Counting of votes start at the same time as other five positions too, therefore the presidential results announcement should not be any different,” said Mr Amondi.
He argued that the current political atmosphere is tense as the leading presidential candidates campaign across the country, with a close contest expected in the presidential race.
They should declare them as early as possible. Shortly after the last Constituency RO announces their result. Their declaration ought to be a largely uneventful formality.Project Bomas Of Kenya
They should declare them as early as possible. Shortly after the last Constituency RO announces their result. Their declaration ought to be a largely uneventful formality.Project Bomas Of Kenya
The only rigging that may happen is turn out rigging if biometric idenification fails or is made to fail.So far iebc trials been good.
The IEBC tells us the EVIDs will work and nobody will vote without those biometrics identifying with him. Fine.
But then Chebukati says there are "some" who will not be identified by the EVIDs.
When Ahmednasir Abdullahi went to verify his vozer status, he was asked for his ID card and not fingerprints. So did many people.
However ignore all that and answer this: Why did Uhuru recall his Jubilee Voting machines and force an amendment to an amendment re-establishing manual voting?
The IEBC will announce or not announce that the computer system has failed and they are resorting to manual voting. Thereafter most of the Jubilee zones will see manual voting or vote stuffing.
But we know that wont be enough because they lack the tyranny of numbers. So they need Matiangi to intimidate NASA zones and to again lead his hackers who will enter the IEBCD database and "transfer voters" or simply record them as having voted then get that vote to Jubilee.
That is where the headache of Final results at the constituency comes in. In the past the RO would receive the figures to send to the IEBC in Nairobi. The problem is that on that day, NASA would have already obtained the result and announced it first at the polling station and at Constituency.
Matiangi is required to ensure that people are kept away from polling stations so Jubilee boys can do their work. There is so much anger in Jubilee cadres who needed the absence of people in polling stations when they hear Raila and NASA telling citizens to vote and stay in polling stations. We expect Matiangi to issue some kind of edict "banning" staying in polling stations.
IEBC continues to build Bomas. I wont be surprised if they issue their own results different from what would have been released in the constituencies.
Vooke
Pundit has been all over with that braggadocio starting from 70 plus and then 51 now back up to 53. In primary school we used to argue. I see something of it in your nonsense. You can say he'll win and others will say he'll not. It's really not complicated. Just insert a negating Verb somewhere in your proposition. No genius required.
As for the rest of the mockery you have a bit of a problem. The rest of Kenya outside nipate, including the much insulted courts have been plugging the rigging loopholes. For the record General Karangi was publicly named and evidence of kdf plans to help rig published complete with photos from embakassi. He should have gone to court to sue or even call a press conference. So attacking omollo and attempting to cast it as mere hallucinations will serve your personal desire to throw matusi but will not dent the fact outside your head at all. So please knock yourself out and probably it will ameliorate your frustrations.
I am for free and fair elections. I wouldn't support NASA if I knew they wanted to rig elections. I don't want anybody to rig elections. So if Uhuru wins without rigging be sure I'll wish him well.
I don't ignore anything so I'll ask NASA intelligence to check your confession of a collusion with Al shabaab. As I told pundit and now tell you, we take nothing for granted.
Vooke
Pundit has been all over with that braggadocio starting from 70 plus and then 51 now back up to 53. In primary school we used to argue. I see something of it in your nonsense. You can say he'll win and others will say he'll not. It's really not complicated. Just insert a negating Verb somewhere in your proposition. No genius required.
As for the rest of the mockery you have a bit of a problem. The rest of Kenya outside nipate, including the much insulted courts have been plugging the rigging loopholes. For the record General Karangi was publicly named and evidence of kdf plans to help rig published complete with photos from embakassi. He should have gone to court to sue or even call a press conference. So attacking omollo and attempting to cast it as mere hallucinations will serve your personal desire to throw matusi but will not dent the fact outside your head at all. So please knock yourself out and probably it will ameliorate your frustrations.
I am for free and fair elections. I wouldn't support NASA if I knew they wanted to rig elections. I don't want anybody to rig elections. So if Uhuru wins without rigging be sure I'll wish him well.
I don't ignore anything so I'll ask NASA intelligence to check your confession of a collusion with Al shabaab. As I told pundit and now tell you, we take nothing for granted.
Atleast you remain topical and do not sink to the Choo level I can see creeping in here. So I'll give you the respect.
You didn't specifically state that 70plus. But you averred that you think it will be a walkover and gave a figure in sixties. I will dig it up and show you. It was not part of you moas but was linked to the Bravado and exuberance.
'Uhuru will lose...he will lose badly. But if he wins, it must be through rigging,curfews,NPS, NIS,KDF,DCI and the whole soup...and since that's not enough, there are some Hungarian hackers, witchcraft,satanism,'
Your creativity at inventing excuses is limited by your imagination
Now, listen up; I can't possibly cheer electile dysfunction. I celebrated in 2013 because it was hard fought and won fair and square.
The ballot printing ruling has exposed NASWA's MO; make bold outrageous claims on the flimsiest basis and shout the loudest, and voila! It's a fact. It backfired in the 2013 petition, has failed in Al Ghurair-Gate, but they are undeterred.
But I think your MO points to one thing; realism. Reality has dawned on you that you're going nowhere
SYes it was going to be a rout until MaDVD was brought back from the dead and he started NASA. That is about 1yr ago when Jubilee was forming the party and they truly looked like 60% -40% was possible against CORD.Of course NASA came up, settled on Raila and it's not looking so shabby - 46%.Atleast you remain topical and do not sink to the Choo level I can see creeping in here. So I'll give you the respect.
You didn't specifically state that 70plus. But you averred that you think it will be a walkover and gave a figure in sixties. I will dig it up and show you. It was not part of you moas but was linked to the Bravado and exuberance.
There is one problem! You have never believed Mudavadi had any votes to bring along. I agree with you on that to an extent. Because he's basically a national demagogue his candidacy would have posed a bigger headache than Jirongos.
But that said you just remind me of all the hurdles we have overcome. The first after trying to knock out Raila abd failing was to break CORD by heaving off Kalonzo. Then you sought to use the flag bearer issue to your advantage. In fact jubilee has not entirely given up on either Mudavadi or Kalonzo leaving.
Oh yes, the attempt on Wetangula. The blackmail on him failed when it turned out as a lawyer he had more dirt than what you guys had.
We have come from far and we are near target. The complaints are yours. You won't hear a pip from NASA unless it's for strategic purposes.
Let me ruffle some feathers: Nkaissery was murdered. But it'll backfire on jubilee not NASA as was hoped. And that retard you hired to run the rigging, Matiangi you could have done better! Maybe Nyachaes son would have more courage. I know Matiangi from college. He walks on spaghetti legs. They get cooked along the way. His interest is money. Sad, we know it.
It's hard to take you seriously. I will leave you to those within your level of intellect. You're too obtuse and maverick for me.You are horribly predictable; you sing NASA songs better than Baba. Uhuru will lose, any victory MUST be stolen bla de bla.
'Uhuru will lose...he will lose badly. But if he wins, it must be through rigging,curfews,NPS, NIS,KDF,DCI and the whole soup...and since that's not enough, there are some Hungarian hackers, witchcraft,satanism,'
Your creativity at inventing excuses is limited by your imagination
Now, listen up; I can't possibly cheer electile dysfunction. I celebrated in 2013 because it was hard fought and won fair and square.
The ballot printing ruling has exposed NASWA's MO; make bold outrageous claims on the flimsiest basis and shout the loudest, and voila! It's a fact. It backfired in the 2013 petition, has failed in Al Ghurair-Gate, but they are undeterred.
But I think your MO points to one thing; realism. Reality has dawned on you that you're going nowhere
MaDVD has votes - only in Vihiga and parts of Kakamega & Nandi - he has solid backing of Maragoli+Tirikis. Outside that enclave he has nothing. So yeah CORD has got all Vihiga (it had Bunyore vihiga - Lunda & areas around there - solidly in ODM) & maragolis & allies in Kakamega & Nandi.
Isaac will not deliver any serious votes to Raila.
As for Jubilee machination against CORD- that is what politics is all about.
As for your usual madness of Nkaiseerry bla de blad....I'll ignore that...and just ask you to take your meds.
IEBC is battling 27 court cases at the moment. That's a deliberate strategy to distract them from their mandate. This case is one of them
I am glad NASA is awake 24/7. You must realize that we in NASA believe that we have the votes to win this thing easy. Our only problem is the voting and the vote count process. We must therefore dedicated most of our resources to make sure the voting process is free and fair. The fact that Jubilee has morphed into IEBC and became their official mouth piece is not reassuring either. We in NASA are not going to stop monitoring. Most of the "stealing" happens because of logistic and procedural loop holes created and exploited by the incumbents. This is the time to close those loopholes. We in NASA are also preparing to monitor this elections very carefully, collect evidence and be ready to litigate if stolen. Iko kitu gani?NASA has ruled out going to court. I watched Norman Manyaga, CEO NASA Secretariat at pains to explain this. His spin was, NASA will win so they won't need the courts. But NASWA has been threatening Jubilee not to dare rig because they won't go to court.IEBC is battling 27 court cases at the moment. That's a deliberate strategy to distract them from their mandate. This case is one of them
IEBC ANNOUNCES 11,155 out of 40,883 polling stns lack network coverage; returning officers will move to areas with internet to relay results pic.twitter.com/QXLDkV5Mye
— Nation Breaking News (@NationBreaking) August 6, 2017
25% of the results won't be relayed in real time. The ROs, sealed ballots and all else will probably troop to consistency to transmit. I can predict chaos as several groups converge at the Constituency tallying center just to transmitIEBC ANNOUNCES 11,155 out of 40,883 polling stns lack network coverage; returning officers will move to areas with internet to relay results pic.twitter.com/QXLDkV5Mye
— Nation Breaking News (@NationBreaking) August 6, 2017
It's weeks old but there was misdirection; they said satellite would complement coverage but we are learning that very few polling stations have satellite( those without 2G) and, those who don't have to move to Constituency tallying center.25% of the results won't be relayed in real time. The ROs, sealed ballots and all else will probably troop to consistency to transmit. I can predict chaos as several groups converge at the Constituency tallying center just to transmitIEBC ANNOUNCES 11,155 out of 40,883 polling stns lack network coverage; returning officers will move to areas with internet to relay results pic.twitter.com/QXLDkV5Mye
— Nation Breaking News (@NationBreaking) August 6, 2017
Almost every county is affected. Apparently they only found out this after the end of the official campaigns.