How IEBC protected 2022 presidential results from ‘outside manipulation’- Chebukati
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Former IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati explains how IEBC ensured the August 2022 presidential election results were free and fair
Former IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati explains how IEBC ensured the August 2022 presidential election results were free and fair.
According to Chebukati, the IEBC used technological advancements to produce an unimpeachable election.
He claimed that the Commission was able to properly plan for the 2022 elections based on the lessons learned from the 2013 and 2017 elections.
“We said we were not going to transmit the text message of the results from the polling station because when the result forms come there is always a problem between the text and the forms and this creates room for misinformation and disinformation,” Chebukati said.
“So we said we shall only transmit the image of the forms. The presiding officer completes forms 34A with agents, they sign, scan the form on Kiems Kit and transmit it to the national and constituency tallying centres and the public portal.”
The former IEBC chair noted that the form images were captured in encrypted PDF formats.
He added that the forms had QR codes for each polling station and only presiding officers had rights to them.
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“We created a 15-digit QR code for each polling station and gave the rights to the specific station the presiding officers so that they can be biometrically identified before scanning and sending the image. It was not easy to get any other form uploaded and every form could be traced to their specific polling stations,” he said.
Through a project by the Electoral Integrity Project for their Annual Electoral Integrity Conference, the former IEBC chairman has been providing updates on what happened in the presidential elections last year.
His project is dubbed ‘The Role of Technology in Improving the Integrity of the Electoral Process in Kenya’.
In May, the former chair announced that he had been picked for the project, he said he would use the time to demystify the “server issue” which the Azimio coalition had intensified calls to have opened.
“I am pleased to announce that my project titled “Role of Technology in Improving the Integrity of the Electoral Process in Kenya” has been accepted for presentation at Electoral Integrity’s Annual Conference to be held on July 3-7! My talk will demystify “the server” in Kenyan polls,” he said.
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