99% is not good enough, it must ensure 100% success. Otherwise the affected 1% must not be disenfranchised because of some stupid gadget/technology. Can you imagine the chaos where 410 polling stations (i.e 1% of kenyas 41000 polling stations) are grounded because the kits failed?[/quote]

Actually 99% is very good. Make that exceptional. The remaining 1% will be identified by an alternative process already anchored in the amended elections act.

The key thing here is to make sure those cases where BVR fails are not deliberate.

Can you imagine if 50 polling stations in Bondo report massive BVR failure ? Even I would rather kirudiwo. I hope we can look beyond 2017.

If we leave these loopholes unsealed, there is a shrewd protagonist angling for the 2022 polls who can take us back 20 years. Sly, cunning and ruthless with only one goal. State capture for personal enrichment.

Can see you are a sharp guy. Like our people say, "Mundu mugi ndaari miheere ya uhoro"

From what IEBC is explaining, incidences where the kit fails to identify the voter are supposed to be very few or none at all.

The alternative process is crazy. A specific form will have to be filled for each case where the KIEMS system fails to identify you as a voter. Then all party agents are summoned to the desk by the presiding officer. A search for your name is done still on the system. If they are in agreement, you are allowed to vote.

At the end of the day, the presiding officer has to file a return of the cases where electronic identification failed.

From the foregoing, we can conclude that IEBC is working on the assumption that these cases will be vey few.

In the event of a kit not working, the have pledged to have another delivered within 1 hour.

I am really hoping and praying that IEBC succeeds.

As a NASA supporter, if I were to make a choice between Rao losing in a clean election or winning in a disputed one, I would rather we lose any day.