99.9% of the presidential results for the August 2022 general elections, former IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati has said, were transmitted electronically.
In a general election, he stated on Thursday, the transmission of the results is crucial and the final test.
“Fact: 99.9 percent of Presidential result forms were electronically transmitted to the public portal within 24 hours of closure of polls,” he tweeted.
Chebukati said that the IEBC processed and sent the presidential election results in a timely manner.
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“The law says presidential election results must be electronically transmitted and we processed and transmitted these results in a quick and speedy manner,” he said.
According to Chebukati, the forms 34A holding the presidential results were scanned and had exact and proper information about the results that were in line with each polling station.
The commission collaborated very successfully with the telecommunications companies to electronically send the results, he said.
He also noted that stakeholders and the general public could watch the tally results.
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“In a few areas where there was no network, we had to bring in satellite modems which then gave us 99.9 percent of the tally forms which were uploaded within 24 hours of closure of polls,” he continued.
The former IEBC boss also described how the electronic transmission of the presidential results was done.
He asserted that once the votes had been counted, the presiding officers filled in the 34A forms.
“The forms are signed by officers and agents of candidates with copies given to agents,” he said.
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According to Chebukati, the presiding officers used the KIEMS kit to acquire a digital PDF of the 34A forms that was encrypted.
The form was then simultaneously sent to the constituency and national tallying centers, as well as the IEBC public portal.
“KIEMS kits were polling-station specific with forms 34A printed with a QR code containing a 15-digit sequence identifying a specific polling station,” he said.
Before transferring the data, the staffers were biometrically identified.
He stated that the Kenyan general election was the country’s first deployment of such a novel technique.
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