Mucheru responds to Ruto over claims of about one million missing voters
2 min readMucheru responds to Ruto over claims that about one million voters are missing from the IEBC register.
ICT CS Joe Mucheru has faulted Deputy President William Ruto for claiming that government officials breached the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) system to alter the voters’ register.
During a forum in Murang’a county on Friday, June 4, Mucheru emphasized that his Ministry did not have access to the electoral body’s servers; adding that his Ministry is just providing support to the IEBC.
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Mucheru responds to Ruto
“Let me be clear, we do not get involved in running the elections. People are saying that Mucheru has access to servers and can decide who is voting or going where.
“The servers are managed and run by the IEBC. We had a joint team that was looking into election preparedness and IEBC stated that they would do that themselves and they did not want us to get involved,” he said.
Mucheru also questioned how Ruto knew that most of the affected voters were from his region.
“I learned that IEBC is giving access to other people to know how many are in that database. The chairman has stated that the register will be ready by June 9. We have heard them say that they have ideas of who is moving where. Even us, we would like to have access and only if they allow us.”
During a meeting with the European Union diplomats, Ruto claimed that about 800,000 voters had been transferred mostly from his strongholds.
However, IEBC dismissed claims that the systems were breached by non-officials of the Commission.
“We are confident in the system that we currently have. The access to the central server by the returning officers is through a private network and not a public network. Each returning officer has got access rights,” commission.
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