Is this not even to its adherents an exercise in futility? In an age of mass 54% vs 44% it is much easier to identify who was voted for by a computer and who was not.
Did Karua lose to Waiguru? Or Kidero to Sonko? Or Mwakwere to Mvurya? Did Ole Lenku win?
We will never really know while Uhuru controls the levers of power having himself like all the above "winners" secured the much talked about and predicted 54%
Even losers were being denied their rightful lose because one specific loser had to score 44%
Termie, what do they call that?
I am accepting that Uhuru has won, because he has been declared a winner. I have doubts about the results because of what happened with the scans though. Out of 40,883 scans, not a single one, materializes until a day later. To me, that is the only what the fuck moment that could mean something unbecoming was going on.
The pattern of the differences is also surprising, though I saw Raila leading for a very short time in the early minutes of the portal. The randomness disappeared shortly thereafter.
As for the scans, it means that out of 40,883 polling stations, not
one of them sent one scan after completion of counting
that night, even as they sent typed text of the results that were being displayed. Chiloba, Msando among others talked themselves hoarse and bragged about how this was going to happen, as one of the guarantors of a clean process. I just assumed that is what was going to happen. I think even NASA, in their disorganization(where were their agents), deferred to that idea.
What were they(POs)
all waiting for before starting to send what eventually became an avalanche of scans? Did they
all just forget until the next day? And when this avalanche was coming in, where were they doing it from and which party agents were there? Maybe there is a perfectly innocent explanation. If I can find that explanation, I might even vouch for kamwana's victory on the basis of these results as opposed to just the declaration.
I also don't understand why the numbers Chebukati gave as registered voters add up to more than those on the voter register he shared a few weeks earlier. They were not 19,611,423 as he claimed but 19,632,796. There are only 4 counties whose voter numbers as announced match what is in the register. Diaspora, Garissa, Nyamira, and Turkana. He did not even bother to include prisons. Not that any of this would make a difference, but it adds to the dubiousness of a process that is already being doubted. Three more days would have cleaned up this act.
Also the constituency tallying was virtually invisible as the delayed scans hogged all the attention. And the NASA agents again. Where were they?