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The IEBC has outlined the votes tallying process right from polling stations to the final announcement of presidential results.
Jubilee Party leader Uhuru Kenyatta and NASA principal Raila Odinga are the main opponents in the elections that is 12 days away.
After results are tallied and announced at polling stations, chairman Wafula Chebukati said, Presiding Officers will type them, as captured in Form 34A, into KIEMS tablets.
The POs will then scan the forms using the tablet and confirm that the typed results and those on the scanned form are accurate.
They will then transmit the results electronically to the constituency tallying centre and the national tallying centre at Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi.
Form 34A will then be made available on the IEBC's online portal, Chebukati said in a statement to the media on Wednesday.
At the constituency tallying centre, the Returning Officer will receive the forms from all the polling stations, collate results from it and then prepare form 34B.
The officer there will then announce results of the presidential election in that constituency before scanning F34B and sending it to Bomas.
He is also expected to receive physical copies of Form 34As and deliver them, together with Form 34B, to the national tallying centre for archiving.
COLLATION, VALIDATION TEAMS
For presidential results to be declared, the scanned Form 34Bs will be received by two designated officers before authentication.
The two officers will do this in the presence of the chief agents of the eight Presidential candidates.
After this process, the commission said, officers, will serialise received forms and hand them over to the Collation Team.
"The Collation Team will generate relevant sections of F34C and hand the same to the Validation Team," he said.
Chebukati said that there are six collation teams to serve the 47 counties.
He added that the Validation Team will be required to verify that the F34C is complete and accurate in relation to the results from the 290 constituencies.
Chebukati said the Validation Team will then hand the form to Commissioners and he will use it to declare the final results of presidential elections.
IEBC also made announcements concerning the powers of presiding officers and police.
"The power conferred on presiding officers and a police officer shall extend to a radius of not more than 400m from the center of the polling station."
After voting one is only allowed to stay beyond a distance of 400 metres from the polling station.
Presiding officers will have permission to disperse crowds that my block exit or entrances to polling stations.
Chebukati said IEBC shall deploy at least two officers per polling station.
"Their role will be to secure election materials as well as maintain order. While working at the polling station they will be under the leadership of the presiding officers," he said.
NO DELAY IN DECLARING POLL WINNER
Results for the presidential election will be announced within seven days after voting on August 8, IEBC timelines indicate as per the Constitution.
The commission says collation and announcement of the results at constituency level is expected to commence on voting day and go on the next day.
Tallying, verification, announcement and declaration of results at the national centre will also begin that Tuesday and go on until August 14.
August 15 will be the last day for declaring the results.
The electoral agency said all polling stations are expected to be open by 6am and close at 5pm. They will begin tallying and announcing 30 minutes after closing officially.
Those on the queue after the 5pm deadline will be allowed to vote.
This will be followed by electronic transmission of presidential results.
PETITIONS ON PRESIDENTIAL RESULTS
In case of petitions arising from presidential results, the first round of the challenge is expected to commence on August 16 after the official declaration of results the day before.
Hearings will begin on August 17 and run for 20 consecutive days until September 5.
Constitutional lawyer Bobby Mukangi said the duration will involve filing cases, gathering witnesses and full hearings.
After hearings, the Supreme Court decision will be made and Kenyans will vote again should this be the requirement.
A fresh election, should a petition be successful, will take place on October 16.
A second round of elections would take place on September 14, should the circumstance be no presidential petition or a run-off.
SCENARIOS FOR REPEAT POLL
Mukangi says the country will return to the ballot in two likely events.
The first is where neither of top presidential candidates President Uhuru Kenyatta and NASA candidate Raila Odinga garner 50 per cent plus one of votes and more than 25 per cent of these from more than half of the 47 counties.
The second scenario is where one of the candidates files a petition at the Supreme Court that ends up successful.
After the court tussle and repeat voting, the commission said tallying and announcement of results will begin on September 14 and go on until September 20.
The commission will then make a final announcement and declare the winner on the same day before results are gazetted and followed by scanning and publication of forms.
Challenges to the second presidential results will begin on September 15 and go on for six more days.
Hearings and determinations will then follow from September 16 to October 5.
Collation, announcement and declaration of other results will also start on election day and run and run until August 14.
Results are to be gazetted on this day and will be followed by scanning and publication of results forms.
Challenges to other election results will begin on August 9 and carry on until September 6.
Hearing and determinations of the petitions will take place from February 8, 2018 to March 8.
The filing of appeals will begin on March 10 and go on for 29 days until April 7. Hearings and determinations will follow from September 10 to October 7.
Source: The Star Kenya