Nasa results incorrect and premature — IEBC

The electoral commission says the National Super Alliance’s claim that it has the final results in its servers is “grossly incorrect and premature”.

 The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission on Thursday described the document purported as having come from the commission as “plainly falsified.”

THREAT

Chairman Wafula Chebukati said the law does not envisage a situation where a candidate in an election demands that he be declared the winner of an election based on results he has provided to the commission.

He said the demand by the Opposition coalition that the commission stop displaying the provisional results, and that it declare Raila Odinga the duly elected president was a threat to the independence of the IEBC.

Mr Chebukati said the legal results of the presidential election are those announced by the constituency returning officers and then put down in Form 34B, which are then collated and announced by him as chairman of the commission.

This, he said, was based on the decision of the Court of Appeal in the case in which it was decided that the results of the presidential election would be electronically transmitted from the polling stations to the constituency returning officers.

FORMS 34B

He said by the time IEBC received the letter from Nasa authored by its Chief Agent James Orengo, only 131 Forms 34B had been received— meaning that the transmission of the results had not been completed.

“The accurate and lawful result will thus only be ascertained once all the Form 34Bs are received by the commission and the results therein collated. Your assertion that the accurate and lawful results are contained in the IEBC servers is grossly incorrect and premature,” he said.

Mr Chebukati also pointed out the errors in the document Nasa said had been obtained by their confidential source inside the commission.

Nasa had indicated the total number of voters as 19,601,502 while there are 19,611,423.

Nasa’s data did not detail or include the Diaspora or prison voters.

The coalition’s number of registered voters in Nyamira County was also wrong and its calculation of turnout also erroneous, Mr Chebukati said.

ORACLE

Its indication of the total number of votes cast in Nyamira County was similar to that of Nairobi County while its totals were also wrong.

Mr Chebukati said the annotation dbo on the document entitled dbo.PRESIDENTIAL_REAL_TIME shows that it is a printout from a Microsoft SQL database.

“The Commission is on record that its results management platform runs on an Oracle database, which is intact and secure,” said Mr Chebukati.

He said the information on its website and the screens at the Bomas of Kenya are “a real time and true reflection of the data received from polling stations and constituency tallying centres countrywide.”

“The information displayed originates from the Commission’s servers: Any other information or data does not originate from the commission or its servers, and is therefore not an expression of the will of the people of Kenya,” he said.