Dissenting IEBC commissioners demonstrate how they were given unverified results to announce
Dissenting IEBC commissioners were given unverified results, which were not sure of, to announce at Bomas.
According to Senior Counsel Paul Mwangi, the four dissenting IEBC commissioners showed that they read results that had not been verified by making errors during the announcement.
Speaking to the Supreme Court on September 2, Mwangi said that given that some of the four were compelled to correct the findings they had announced, there was sufficient evidence to support their claim that they had not verified the results.
Mwangi cited a situation in which Justus Nyang’aya, the commissioner, incorrectly reported excessive results for William Ruto, the deputy president, before later clarifying his remarks.
“After Nyang’aya reads the results in the Kiambu town constituency, it was stated that Ruto’s results went over 10,000 votes. That shows that the commissioner did not know what he was doing and is forced to come to read the results afresh.
“Vice-chairperson Juliana Cherera was also given results to read in Juja constituency – inflated results in favour of Ruto. I will leave it for them to explain that better,” he stated.
Raila’s team had been put to task to explain why the commissioners would dissent results that they took part in verifying.
“Commissioners were together until the 11th hour. What evidence do we have this was not an afterthought and that they are not doing this in good faith?” Justice Lenaola posed to Raila’s team on August 31.
In response to proof that the cancellation of the Kakamega and Mombasa gubernatorial elections had an impact on voter turnout, Mwangi said that the six-piece campaigns have an impact on both national elections and devolved unit elections.
He believed that the suspended gubernatorial polls may have caused some voters to chose not to cast a ballot.
“Elections affect each other as people come to vote for various reasons and especially when dealing with elections at the national and devolved levels.
Additionally, Raila’s team maintained that the election was influenced by the manipulation of Forms 34A uploaded by the KIEMS kit.
“The evidence from the Commission is that the images are taken in JPEG format. The issue here is that there is no reason why the format was changed to PDF. We do use WhatsApp and images shared usually come as they are sent. They are never changed.”
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