20,818,000 Presidential ballot papers, in 416,360 booklets, arrive on 31st and 1st. Sum is inclusive of 1% provision in case of spoilt vote
— IEBC (@IEBCKenya) July 29, 2017
The quantities of ballots papers per polling stations, the ballet numbers, other details are available online https://t.co/vqzvZl1EcW
— IEBC (@IEBCKenya) July 29, 2017
The quantities of ballots papers per polling stations, the ballet numbers, other details are available online https://t.co/vqzvZl1EcW
— IEBC (@IEBCKenya) July 29, 2017
What's their final word on the register? How many voters are there?
I have gone to the site. I have accessed it.I'm not countering, just reporting their spin.
First it is not 1% but almost 6%. That you can verify by calculating the announced number of voters versus the 20.8 m ballots.
Secondly, the IEBC embarked on a rather clever mission. It adds 1% to the number of voters per polling station then rounds it off to the nearest 50 or something. The more polling stations there are (with ghost voters) the more of the nearly 1M ballots you got.
The bottom line is the tweet does not answer the concern notably the claim that only 1% was added. In reality almost 6% has been added.
Feel free to do your own counter calculations and either confirm or counter my assertions.
So there is no doubt, one could argue about how the ballots have or can be accounted for. However if you are telling people that you only added 1% and that becomes your official position, then you fail to account for 4 to 5 %. Note that 1% made all the difference in 2013The quantities of ballots papers per polling stations, the ballet numbers, other details are available online https://t.co/vqzvZl1EcW
— IEBC (@IEBCKenya) July 29, 2017
I'm not countering, just reporting their spin.
Apparently and for some strange reasons, ballots can only be printed in 50 page booklets. So they first add 1% to voters in a station and ROUNDUP to the nearest 50.
I saw from that list that a Kisii Prison (Kondege or something) with 4 voters is getting a whole booklet of 50....46 extra ballots.
Here is one calculation:Shiet is illegible
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DF-GKvMXoAAlAcB.jpg)I'm not countering, just reporting their spin.
Apparently and for some strange reasons, ballots can only be printed in 50 page booklets. So they first add 1% to voters in a station and ROUNDUP to the nearest 50.
I saw from that list that a Kisii Prison (Kondege or something) with 4 voters is getting a whole booklet of 50....46 extra ballots.
Here is one calculation:Shiet is illegible
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DF-GKvMXoAAlAcB.jpg:large)I'm not countering, just reporting their spin.
Apparently and for some strange reasons, ballots can only be printed in 50 page booklets. So they first add 1% to voters in a station and ROUNDUP to the nearest 50.
I saw from that list that a Kisii Prison (Kondege or something) with 4 voters is getting a whole booklet of 50....46 extra ballots.