I voted for President and Gov not senator or Mp or MCA, it was a waste of time for me. I know people who opted not to vote for the President because they neither prefered Kenyatta or Raila, but voted for MP and Gov. Why should that be rocket science? I placed the unmarked papers in the ballots. Kwani ni lazima?

I expect sobriety when senate convenes today to debate amendments. I actually think the Senate will find a middle ground where parliament totally failed ( Assuming that idiots like Bony do not go thumping their bony chests). If this happens, then, it will be prove enough that we do not require the ever expensive Mpigs!

Mahegoat... despite your name - you have always seemed to me like an intelligent fellow. Why do you constantly mix the two mattersI what happens at the polling station IN voting day and what happens during the preparation of the roll? kushikwa means 2 things... 1) AFIS will nab you if you attempt to register multiple times.
2) you will be removed from the roll of registered voters and will be placedon supplementary roll of people who if show up are to be arrested.

The enforcement of the last stage of action subject to the whims of the polling station staff in the same way deceased voters can vote but they cannot add you to the list of registered voters.

Niambie.. unapotelea wapi.

the black book was during the ECK era. the green book was an IEBC creation. We are in the IEBC era. Let me explain it's basis and how it came into use. So the register was biometric and all data had to be captured on the electronic system. I know for a fact some of these places had issues with registration machines. Some machines crashed and some of the biggest noise makers now in CORD would not be on the register if the greenbook was not in place. Why - law of large numbers. in a group of a couple 10s of thousands of staff some one will not follow procedure. Some fellow will not back up the data as expected and if it happens that that machine crashes and you did not backup the register - what should happen to the data of all those who had registered and are already home? in elections we say - when you find yourself in such a situation it is better to err on the side of inclusion! why voting is a right in the same league as right to life and picking a spouse. The enforcement of polling day procedures is key to having the process of inclusion working well.
P.S. Just confirmed with my source - several persons were arrested in 2013 when they registered multiple times and showed up to vote. So ambia hao majamaa waRegister ovyo ovyo - utapatikana... utakula ugali wa serikali unless P.O ni rela wako

secondly, if you indeed appeared on the black book of registered voters during the ECK days and were allowed to vote multiple times - did they mark your finger with indelible ink? if you managed to convince them (I am guessing multiple polling stations) not to mark you as voted already - what was the point of even having you on the black book in the first place. If you convinced them to ignore your entry in the supplementary roll of persons to be arrested when they show up to register - why do you even need to be registered in the 1st place? I have heard of narratives from strongholds that ikifika time fulani - those who have not showed up to vote actually 'vote'. Why engage in the charade of being in the black book in the first place if you can still vote.

Let's pause for a while and ask ourselves. How many people were on the supplementary list of persons without biometrics? (due to various system failures?) there were some 45k cases in that range during the last registration cycle - this represented 0.3% of the register. we are not even told if these people showed up to vote in the first place. So if 0.3% of the register make akina Kethi go to court and zusha about the integrity of the whole register - why do we think denying a sizable population the oppotunity to vote is any sort of compromise? elections are for people not for politicians.

Must you become a fool when you join GoK?

Let's place things in perspective : voting day has about 4 core activities that happen at polling station
1) verification - looking up your name on the register and marking you off the register
2) ballot paper marking and dropping the marked ballot into a ballot
3) counting of all ballots in the said ballot box.
4) announcement and sending of results of the polling station to the next level.

The current debate is about step 1 and 4. Namely verification of persons and after doing all that needs to happen - transmitting the results.
this is not a new thing per se as it happened in 2013 and was not a legal requirement but rather an administrative step. now the 2 have been entrenched in law. I am very much for the automation of those two but I am very certain that I want a fallback that does not infringe on the key reason we go for elections... hearing the voices of the people. Now DISCUSS.

Using the word "systems" can be used to cause chaos in Kenya by bad politicians, they will spread lies like "stolen", "compromised", and lo and behold if there is a beautiful professional lady(of just wrong TRIBE) near the 'system', she shall be abused in conjunction with the system failure by the politicians and asked to resign. Before you know it, we have a team of international experts hired to check what happened, and their answer, we don't know? But billions will have been already spent through tenders on the system.

Then the "know it all" "IT Experts", and Data analyst experts will come in with their expensive looking "corporate style" designer spectacles aka goggles, and start yapping kizungu mingi about 2 levels of security, biometrics, software bugs, data mining, IP address, hacking, selling info, each with a different story and they are the specific experts to solve the problem for billions (na wameweka stoneface), "more tender", before we know it we have a full scale war of confusion and lies.2022 scenario repeated.

A manual back up to avoid the above confusion is a must!

At least the residents are wise and have a manual backup ie cash money and dont have to wait until the dysfunctional (destroyed) safcom and orange towers are repaired for them to continue transacting business. But baba is insisting that "they MUST suspend all business until mpesa is back". So if anything happens to the communication towers during election time, baba is saying that we wait for even 2 weeks until they are repaired, then the people can vote and results can be transmitted.

I remember sometime back writing this in response to @maka's proposal of some mpesa like system to vote on the phone.



this was way before current debate. Does anyone remember the conversation around the inside story? 50% +1 by akina Namu? especially the second bit?



no one really understands technology - not Raila, Not Kalonzo not even the 'hackers' or even the east africa data network person. No one. the conversation that followed us was even more interesting... sasa people were following the lead of persons who they trusted... persons who were clueless on the subject matter. it's a case of the blind following the blind! that's the worst thing when technology fails... some guy once said

MPESA is magic to many people... it 'just works' until it stops and people cannot tell what to do

I was reaching a point of exasperation, and then I happened to have clicked on Season One Episode One instead of one of the world’s favourites; Season Three Episode One.

Right from day one, Special Agent Donald Ressler is the butt of many a joke from Mr. Reddington.

This is because Agent Ressler is a stickler for the straight and narrow and presumes everyone else does the same.

I hope you and Citizens have watched Season One and perhaps the rest of the series.

Because I am about to have my fun too.

You might want to talk to Clerks who have actually worked as Polling Clerks in “Strong Hold Areas” between 6 am and 6 pm who later become Counting Clerks after having their dinner.

Out there, there is evidence of rigging.

Or is there?

Kirinyaga District Erectoral Commission of Kenya Office Headquarters was burnt to the ground.

Twice.

What was that story about where Kenyatta University “students” destroyed erectoral materials stored within the campus?

Grab some popcorn.

Perspective. The cheek.