March 04 2013: Kenya's historic poll - Kenya decides!

Arushaone · Mar 5, 2013

Gang Chomba said:
teh teh Raila kapiga mbizi kwenye changalawe...analo

Mkuu Gang Chomba, the time is coming itabidi ufute kauli. . .Niko hapa BOMAS of KENYA na matokeo yote unayoyaona is just 40% ya kura zilizopigwa.

Arushaone · Mar 5, 2013

Gang Chomba said:
teh teh Raila kapiga mbizi kwenye changalawe...analo

Mkuu Gang Chomba, the time is coming itabidi ufute kauli. . .Niko hapa BOMAS of KENYA na matokeo yote unayoyaona is just 40% ya kura zilizopigwa.

Leak · Mar 5, 2013

Arushaone no way out hata kwenye hizo kura zilizobaki hata uhuru kenyatta ana kura zake hivyo Odinga still hana lake! Lets wait!

Arushaone said:
Mkuu Gang Chomba, the time is coming itabidi ufute kauli. . .Niko hapa BOMAS of KENYA na matokeo yote unayoyaona is just 40% ya kura zilizopigwa.

FULLUMBU · Mar 5, 2013

Masuke said:
Hiyo 42.40% sio sehemu ya kura zilizopigwa bali ni sehemu ya waliojiandikisha, huwezi kujua idadi ya watu waliopiga kura kama hujamaliza kuhesabu, ukitumia assumption ya kwamba 70% ndo ilikuwa turnout kwa hiyo kura zilizohesabiwa ni zaidi ya 50% ya kura zote zilizopigwa.

kweli we great thinker chukua 5...........haiwezekani watu milioni 14 wote wapige kula ni kweli up to now zaidi ya 60 done kwa waliopiga kula no way kumzuia kenyatta kwenda nyumba nyeupe

Masuke · Mar 5, 2013

Tiba said:
Mkuu sijui kama umewahi kushiriki kuhesabu kura. Kama umewahi, basi haukuwa makini kuangalia ni kitu gani kilifanyika. Huwezi kuanza kuhesabu kura kabla ya kujua idadi ya kura zote zilizopigwa kwenye kituo. Hatua ya kwanza kwenye zoezi la kuhesabu kura, ni kujua idadi ya kura zote zilizopigwa bila kujali kama zimeharibika au vinginevyo. Mkiishajua idadi ndio mnakwenda kuhesabu per candidate na vile vile kujua ni ngapi zimeharibika. At the end of the exercise, idadi ya kura alizopata kila mgombea zinajumlishwa ili kuona kama idadi ile inaendana na jumla ya kura zote zilivyopigwa. Kama ulikuwa hujui hii, basi leo umepata nafasi ya kujifunza.

Tiba

Tunazungumzia kura za nchi nzima sio kituo kimoja mkuu.

Consigliere · Mar 5, 2013

Im still watching...

Islam005 · Mar 5, 2013

mliokaribu na tv au net yenye kasi kidogo tupeni updates msitusahau..

PakavuNateleza · Mar 5, 2013

Hii ni kutoka kwa mwenyekiti wa uchaguzi wa kenya baada ya eletronic system kugoma.Sasa MAtokeo yatatangwazwa manual na kila returning officer.
MY take
Mi East Afrika ndivo tulivyo

PakavuNateleza · Mar 5, 2013

Agwambo is the only Man enough to lead Kenya.CORD hatujapoteza urais bado

PhD · Mar 5, 2013

Naanza kupata shaka na mataikuni ya kikikuyu

Tiba · Mar 5, 2013

Masuke said:
Tunazungumzia kura za nchi nzima sio kituo kimoja mkuu.

Ndio maana yake kura zilizopigwa kila kituo zilihesabiwa kwanza na idadi yake kuwasilishwa kwenye tume ya uchaguzi baada ya hapo ndipo individual votes zikaanza kuhesabiwa kwa kila kituo. Bila kujua idadi ya kura zilizopigwa kwanza, ni kutoa mwanya kwa watu kufanya forgery.

Tiba

Mc Tilly Chizenga · Mar 5, 2013

Masuke said:
Tunazungumzia kura za nchi nzima sio kituo kimoja mkuu.

Rudia kusoma maelezo ya tiba uelimike

OKW BOBAN SUNZU · Mar 5, 2013

PakavuNateleza said:
Hii ni kutoka kwa mwenyekiti wa uchaguzi wa kenya baada ya eletronic system kugoma.Sasa MAtokeo yatatangwazwa manual na kila returning officer.
MY take
Mi East Afrika ndivo tulivyo

Kamchezo kama ka CCM?

Ab-Titchaz · Mar 5, 2013

Yes, we have problems with vote tallying, says IEBC boss

By JOHN NGIRACHU jngirachu@ke.nationmedia.com and ISAAC ONGIRI iongiri@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Wednesday, March 6 2013 at 00:30

In Summary

Poll team will also adjust percentage of tallies to include spoilt votes, a move likely to cut Cord, Jubilee numbers
Commission changes gear and prepares to release final official tallies after computer hitch slows provisional numbers

The electoral team on Tuesday admitted experiencing challenges with its electronic system for transmitting and releasing presidential results.

The commission said it will start releasing official results using the manual forms submitted by constituency returning officers who were on their way to Nairobi by Tuesday.

Mr Isaack Hassan, the chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, also announced that his team would adjust percentages displayed on its screens at the Bomas of Kenya to reflect percentages of all votes cast and not just valid votes.

This could lead to a reduction of Jubilee presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta and his Cord flagbearer Raila Odinga's percentages with possibility that none of them will attain the constitutional threshold probably leading to a run off.

The move immediately triggered protests from Jubilee.

Last night, the Jubilee Coalition said it was surprised by what it said was a demand by Cord for the inclusion of invalid votes to be counted along with the valid as part of the overall tally that would define whether a winning presidential candidate gets the 50 per cent + 1 vote threshold.

"There is no precedent in Kenya or internationally for invalid votes to be counted because, by their very nature, they are invalid. They have never been counted in Kenyan elections before and the IEBC has set strict legal boundaries in place that ensure invalid votes should not be included," Jubilee said in statement.

The coalition said it had sought clarification on the matter from the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa which concluded that "recounting rejected or invalid votes had no precedent in Africa.''

Jubilee leaders also asked the electoral commission to urgently rectify "the technical issues" that were affecting the tallying of votes.

"We are especially concerned by the slow progress in collecting votes in Nairobi and Nakuru, but are also aware of problems across the country,'' the team said.

Political parties were thrown into confusion last night after the electoral commission said it would start announcing official results this morning, hours after the system for making provisional results available malfunctioned.

With the screens showing the provisional results frozen since 5.30pm, Mr Hassan acknowledged at 8.30pm that the system was experiencing difficulties.

"We had aimed for 100 per cent perfection but we have experienced problems on the last day," Mr Hassan said.

"What is true is that there has been a delay in transmission of results from polling stations," he said. He also sought to dismiss rumours that the commission did not have a back-up of the data or that its systems had crashed.

He said the commission has been in constant communication with the chief agents of the presidential candidates and had briefed them on the problems the system was encountering.

"What brought us here are the official results and they are coming. The official results will be announced starting tomorrow (Wednesday)," Mr Hassan said.

He said the four screens would be adjusted as the figures come in.

But asked by human rights activist Maina Kiai whether the commission had abandoned the electronic tallying of provisional results and opted for the final tally, Mr Hassan said the electronic system would continue.

"You remember there was a big turnout. The counting and tabulation of the results at the polling stations and then also at the tallying centres has taken long and that's why we are beginning to see for the first time returning officers arriving late in the night or tomorrow morning," Mr Hassan said.

http://elections.nation.co.ke/news/...lays/-/1631868/1712640/-/1j8sm9z/-/index.html

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IEBC: There is delay in results transmission

Updated 16 mins ago

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission ( IEBC) has refuted claims of a server crash at the tallying centre.

In a press conference, IEBC chair Isaack Hassan said there were delays in transmission of results from polling centres by returning ofiicers.
He added that they will resort to manual tallying due to the challenges they were experiencing.

The electoral body chair also appealed to all aspirants especially presidential candidates to remain calm and allow the commission to announce results.

"We would like to request Kenyans and mostly the presidential candidates to remain calm as we await the final announcement of results", said Hassan.

He further said they will start announcing official results from tomorrow after electronic transmitters experienced delays.

Standard Digital News - Kenya : IEBC: There is delay in results transmission

PakavuNateleza · Mar 5, 2013

issue ninayoiona ni kukurupuka.you cant guarantee live streaming and reporting of results while you dont have qualified and competent IT engineers plus miundombinu ya kuunga unga.it wont work

Ab-Titchaz · Mar 5, 2013

Hawa IEBC mimi nina soo nao especially when it comes to civil education. Nashangaa kwa nini hawakufanya
elimu jamii in regards to this matter. Kura zilizoharibika ni nyingi mno!

Nyamizi · Mar 5, 2013

Hii ndio shida ya Africa,kila kitu kitapindishwa pindishwa tu na visingizio kibao,matokeo yake wanacreate tension kwa watu bila sababu kwa kuchelewesha matokeo!

Ab-Titchaz · Mar 5, 2013

IEBC at pains to explain failure of hi-tech system

Posted Tuesday, March 5 2013 at 00:30
In Summary

Team says clerks were trained on different equipment due to the late delivery of kits

A technology glitch threatened to disrupt voting at a number of polling stations on Monday, bringing into doubt the accuracy of tests done on the equipment.
Announcing the acquisition of electronic poll books, which are basically voter identification kits, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) said the gadgets would eliminate human error and seal loopholes which could be exploited to manipulate the elections.

IEBC chairman Ahmed Issack Hassan said this was simply replacing the paper poll book with an electronic version, which was more efficient and could extract information from encrypted servers.

The poll book is connected to a fingerprint scanner which calls up a voter's details on the screen.

"The e-poll book will identify the voter before he or she casts their ballot. It will verify that you are indeed the registered voter," he said at the time.

In fact, Mr Hassan said if the e-poll books failed, presiding officers would revert to the manual registers, a print version of the data captured by the biometric voter registration kits.

On Monday, IEBC chief executive James Oswago attributed the technical hitch to various factors from inability of polling clerks to remember passwords to last minute omissions by the commission.

"This was a result of many factors. The basic one was that most clerks could not remember the passwords assigned to the systems while others had problems with battery management," he said, clarifying that the glitch was not related to the BVR kits whose delivery was delayed after the IEBC failed to award the contract in time due to internal differences.

"The problem was not the BVR. The challenges today were exclusively related to poll books," he said.

Mr Oswago declared the IEBC would not "sweep problems under the carpet when they arise".

He said the e-poll books, which were in the form of laptops, were imported much later than the BVR kits and came with a specific security card which required activation before use.

Security precaution

Most of the clerks were not aware of the security precaution. "The poll books came with a security card inside the laptops which was to be activated first," he said.

And because they came late, a different version of the kits was used to train clerks.

However, the imported poll books' operating system was different from the ones used in training.

"The clerks were trained with a different machine with the knowledge that the new laptops would be similar. When it came to operating them this morning, there was a problem," Mr Oswago said.

He assured Kenyans that the printed lists would do the job equally well.

It was not the first time the e-poll books have failed since the technology was introduced.

In 2006, the US state of Maryland and county of Denver, Colorado, had problems with the kits during primary elections.

In Kenya, the IEBC worked closely with the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (Ifes) in introducing the technology.

Ifes official Mike Yard said at the time the poll books would identify the real number of voters at a particular polling station, making it possible for the IEBC to detect anomalies.

"While this technology cannot take the place of party agents and observers to keep the process honest and transparent, and cannot prevent reporting 100 percent of the votes for a single party or candidate, it can prevent the polling station from reporting 120 percent or 200 percent, as has been the case in past elections," he said.

An e-poll books is an electronic device, which can come in terms of a lap top fitted with a software to capture the same voter registration information contained in a printed poll book.

http://elections.nation.co.ke/news/...ailure/-/1631868/1711412/-/840wg/-/index.html

meningitis · Mar 5, 2013

mle mle tu!usanii umeshaanza,another kivuitu.

Wakenya wanapenda kuiga tembo kunya..

Nyamizi · Mar 5, 2013

Ab-Titchaz said:
Hawa IEBC mimi nina soo nao especially when it coms to civil education. Nashangaa kwa nini hawakufanya
elimu jamii in regards to this matter. Kura zilizoharibika ni nyingi mno!

Mkuu wangu,kweli inashangaza sana kura zaidi ya laki 3 sio kitu kidogo hicho!

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