IEBC admits errors in KIEMS kits as it explains why stopped live streaming of results
IEBC (Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission) admits errors in KIEMS Kits serial numbers.
While responding to allegations that Venezuelan national, Jose Camargo, manipulated Forms 34A, IEBC lawyer Mahat Somane admitted that KIEMS kits had serial number errors.
Mahat Somane stated that the errors originated from the exercise of serialization of the technology gadgets.
Serialization is the process of translating a data structure into a format that can be stored or transmitted and reconstructed later.
“We understood our role in this court is to provide all the information for it to make a decision. We admit that those KIEMS have the same serial number. It was an error that originated at the time of the serialization.
“But the KIEMS kits have different identifiers, IP addresses, IMEI, polling station,” Somane stated.
Somane admission came at the backdrop of a heated debate between Wafula Chebukati’s lead counsel Githu Muigai and Raila Odinga’s lawyer James Orengo.
In a presentation made by lawyer Julie Soweto on Friday, September 2, Orengo’s team asserted that Venezuelan national Jose Camargo had accessed the IEBC system and altered Forms 34A.
However, Somane explained that Camargo’s name was captured in Forms 34A as the register of the QR code was printed by Smartmatic which supplied KIEMS kits, and was printed in the name of Jose Camargo.
Why live streaming of results stopped
Lawyer Mahat Somane said there was a clog in the IEBC portal that affected the transmission of results.
“For three days, we had only verified 50 returning officers, the process became clogged. For you to be able to transmit (the results), verification had to happen first,” he said.
“That means those ROs had to be stopped because verification cannot happen as the announcement is happening, we will be running numbers that have to been announced yet.”
He said that IEBC had to stop the process and give verification a chance because of the forensic audit that had been recommended.
Somane said that stopping the live transmission was nothing malicious.
“There were three sets of transmissions at Bomas, one on the forms that had been downloaded, the second one related to the constituencies, and the one which had stopped was the one on the tally,” he said.
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