Rahatupu wrote:@from2011 pls explain to me who the ŕeferee/umpire is in this scenario. Is it Babu or some independent observers? The last time I checked the EU and US observers gave IEBC a clean bill for the 2013 results. Moreover the Supreme Court determined no rigging occurred. But CORD came up with their narrative to explain another Babu loss.
Nobody is alleging rigging here. Its about the spectacular failure of the electronic voter identification and transmission system. The same happened in Ghana in 2012. They learnt their lesson and in 2016 held what is now being regarded as the most transparent election in Africa.
Please remember the electronic identification and transmission were specific recommendations from the kriegler report. They were supposed to ensure we do not find ourselves in the 2007 mess ever.
Still, in cord's petition to the supreme court, evidence was presented where figures announced at constituency levels differed from the figures released by IEBC hqs. The variances were small e.g. 96, 141. IEBC would later explain that there had been errors at the constituency levels.
As I stated in another thread, we are hopeless as a nation in fact-checking. Remember the allegation that 2M people only voted for the president and no other post ? It wasn't true. It was started by Robert Alai and funny enough nobody thought of countering the false story with facts.