Rejected "ballots" are not votes cast. It is as simple as that. See Article 138 of the Constitution read together with regulations 77 and 78 of the Elections (General) Regulations, 2012 made under the Elections Act 2011.

The only logical explanation would be that as per 18th Dec in the morning that was the count. During the day more were registered before the end of the deadline in the afternoon. I dont see how a whole IEBC did not do the tally and notice this before posting for all to see. My Two cents.

I hope umebrush meno kabla ukuje kuongea hapa Wazua;-)

Rejected votes were rejected at polling station hence were not transmitted to returning officer. Keep it Simple

Provisional vs Official Results....

My understanding is that the Provisional Results that were coming in were per polling Station withing a constituency. If constituency X has 50 polling stations and 30 stations had submitted their results electronically, of course the tally will be different since the Official Results is at the constituency level and is inclusive of ALL the 50 polling stations in Constituency X.

However I would want to know the difference in Registered voters in the Official Results viz a viz the "Provisional" Voter registration numbers.

If am to give the IEBC the benefit of doubt I would make a guess and say, the figure were affected by several issues like:

>The figures given on 18th Dec were projections and not based on exact figures.
>More people registered on the last day after projections were made.
>The double registered voters altered the register a bit.
>The guys who were sharing BVR kits may have been for two polling stations neighbouring each other but in different neighbouring constituencies

There can be a lot of reasons, but I would like to hear what the IEBC have to say.