washiku wrote:I really do not think people listened to what IEBC said. First, the context of the story is important. It was in a media briefing. The CEO said that media will have access to the results real time as they stream in. He also said the results will also be live 24/7 on their website. All he pleaded with them not to do was to announce the final results, like they shouldn't go ahead and declare so and so is now the President elect since that is the role of the Chairman. What he said they won't do this time round is that ritual of a commissioner coming to announce after every one or two or whatever hour. In fact he clarified that this decision was more so because the results declared at the constituency level were final and will be transmitted online to Bomas, no need of the RO to come all the way to Nai.
Now if the media has the data and they are showing it publicly, where exactly is the vacuum? Even the old way of a commissioner announcing them was still being done through the same media.
Very true. That clip by @murchr is misleading, it was edited to cause alarm. There is no cause of worry since results will be streaming live. Reminds me of how kivuitus statement was edited to read "I don't know who won the election" when in fact he was responding to a question asking if kibaki won FAIRLY. His "i dont know" was in regard to "FAIRLY" and not whether kibaki had won. In fact baba repeated that erroneous statement in his debate.