Ohhh, isn't that what you were told jana? Umechelewa

By the way Murchr on a serious note. Keep your hound dog Amores very far from me. Sipendi wanaume wakulilia kama matiti ya ngombe.

Educate him on serious fight online where being yes or no doesn't matter, just discussing issue.

That is just my opinion.

Fight your battles alone. Ata you are not a registered voter sijui why you spend too much time talking of matters you dont participate in.

Let the legitimate voters share their opinion

2. When they were asked by Lady Philomena Mwilu, what happens when you have 5 voting papers and I decide to only have one. The lawyers in court, did not even have a clue to the answer.

Why did Kenya's Supreme Court annul the elections?

In the face of international pressure to ignore flagrant electoral violations, the court decided to stick to democracy.

Yada, yada, yada.

Fundamentally, this ruling was about reminding the IEBC that it cannot pick and choose which parts of the constitution to obey.

In court, lawyers for the IEBC struggled to give good reasons about why the core tools of electoral management dictated by law and publicly promised to voters were not actually used during the election.

For example, IEBC lawyers shockingly argued that the tallying website (public.iebc.or.ke), on which local and international reporting about the election relied. was "not the public portal" that the IEBC promised, and they never told the court what that website was and why it existed.

The ruling was also about glaring errors that, on one hand, the IEBC argued were not enough to alter the outcome of the election, but on the other, critics argued, compromised the integrity of the whole system.

For example, the IEBC conceded that they did not use the electronic transmission system they were required to, and instead relied on text messages and photographs of manually filled forms as sources of information.

The process of tallying was also problematic because the IEBC seemed to ignore much of the law regulating it.

The commission lawyers argued that the forms used for reporting results from the different regions were all available in time for the announcement of the results on August 11.

Yet as late as August 14, the IEBC was still asking the opposition to "be patient" while it tries to make the forms available to them for verification.

How was the final result generated on the basis of forms that were not available until several days after the election?

A number of the forms provided by the IEBC also didn't have serial numbers or bar codes, and some were simple lined paper with numbers scrawled on them.

Lawyers for the IEBC conceded these irregularities but argued they were too small to have affected the whole outcome.

But in court, the chief justice pushed back: "If some of the forms have bar codes, then shouldn't all of the forms have bar codes?"

After all, this was one of the most expensive elections in the world.

Almost $500 million or $28 per capita in taxpayer money was spent on the premise that the process would be brought closer to perfection.

Wasn't the money enough to get barcodes?

But beyond establishing high democratic standards for elections in Kenya, this ruling was also about reaffirming judicial independence.

It put Chief Justice David Maraga in history books as the first African chief justice to oversee the annulment of election results.

Less than a year into his term, there were already strong indications during a testy pre-election period that judicial independence was of utmost importance to the Maraga-led court.

At least three times in under 12 months, the chief justice and the judicial service commission issued statements defending the independence of the judiciary after attacks from the president and the National Assembly majority leader.

All in all, the September 1 ruling was good news for Kenyan democracy.

"The greatness of a nation relies on its fidelity to the Constitution and adherence to the rule of law", said Chief Justice Maraga, giving Kenya's democracy marathon a second wind, a massive victory that hopefully translates into a better process and stronger democracy in Kenya and beyond.

Nanjala Nyabola is a Kenyan writer and political analyst based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.

Atiatia?

whatever you guys smoke i want. atiatia?

What did you see ?

@alma ?

What doesn't add up from this story is if indeed the forms 34A were forged, shouldn't NASA have presented the authentic forms that were in the hands of their agents to dispute the figures?

You can't eig rig MP elections like Presidential ones. If they were rigged the outcry would've been loud from the onset

An MP aspirant will most likely know all his agents and their phone numbers

By the time results are announced, all candidates know their results

Let's stop taking the computer excuse too far?