From left: Kura Yangu Sauti Yangu Society members Gladwell Otieno,
Samwel Mohochi, Njonjo Mue and Peter Kiama. The repeat presidential poll
was marred by inconsistencies and errors, the lobby says. PHOTO | FILE |
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Civil societies have highlighted various
inconsistencies in the October 26 repeat poll involving the register,
number of valid votes cast and vote addition errors.
Under the Kura Yangu, Sauti Yangu
(My vote, My Voice) banner, the groups faulted Independent Electoral
and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Wafula Chebukati for the
errors.
REGISTER
They
questioned why the number of registered voters announced by Mr
Chebukati differed from the gazetted number of listed voters, both at
the national and county levels.
“Mr
Chebukati's announced numbers match what is in the gazetted register in
only four of the 48 counties [voting areas] (eight percent),” the group
said in its assessment of the repeat elections ordered by the Supreme
Court.
“In 92 percent of the counties, the gazetted number and Chebukati’s announced number are different.”
The team also faulted Mr Chebukati’s figure of
the total number of people that turned up to vote, which the IEBC chief
put at 7,616,217.
“That total is not
the total of all votes cast. It is actually the sum total of his
announcement of candidates’ aggregate valid votes. Using his individual
county results, the total number of valid votes is 7, 716, 107,” they
said.
Further, the team said the IEBC
chief had got his math wrong in the final declaration, with the figure
for three candidates varying from the calculations of the 47 county
figures they made.
DEAD VOTERS
Instead
of the 7,483,895 figure for President Uhuru Kenyatta, the team added it
up to 7,583,895, a 100,000 subtraction, with those of Ekuru Aukot and
Mohamed Abduba Dida added 100 and 10 votes to 21,333, and 14,107,
respectively.
The team also faulted the IEBC voter register, saying it lacked a definitive number of registered voters.
“We
noted unexplained differences between the biographic and biometric
lists of voters, unexplained increases in the register after
registration closed, the presence of over a million dead voters in the
final register and serious data gaps in the reference documents used to
create the register,” said the report by the Kura Yangu, Sauti Yangu
group.
While the number of registered
voters was 19,611,423 in June after verification and certification, the
figure changed to 19,637,061 in August, climbed to 19,728,124 on
October 26 when Kenyans voted, 19,671,944 two days later, and was at
19,611, 366 on October 30 when the fresh poll results were declared.
The team said it deployed 2,000 observers in 44 of Kenya’s 47 counties to monitor the repeat poll.
Find the Kura Yangu, Sauti Yangu report in the downloads section of this story.
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