In a 14-point letter, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee party has asked the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) for information that will enable it to file petitions challenging election outcomes in the Mt Kenya region.
The party wants data on the governor, senator, woman representative, MP, and ward representative seats.
The party has declared its intention to challenge the outcomes in the counties of Tharaka Nithi, Meru, Laikipia, Nyeri, Kirinyaga, Embu, Murang’a, Kiambu, Nyandarua, Nairobi, and Nakuru.
The letter by Secretary-General Jeremiah Kioni, stated that Jubilee leaders, including its party, the outgoing president, believe that “our win in the Mt Kenya area was stolen”.
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He claimed that the party needs information from the electoral agency in order to launch its petitions.
The party, he said, had already ordered a thorough audit of the election.
According to the former Ndaragwa MP, the party wrote to the IEBC citing Section 4 of the Access to Information Act No. 31 of 2016 and Article 35 of the Constitution.
Kioni also noted that the data request was in order to preserve the party and its members’ rights as listed in Article 38 of the Constitution.
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Kioni lost his seat to George Gachagua of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), which defeated Jubilee in Mount Kenya.
The lawyer received 7,227 votes while Mr Gachagua polled 30,180 votes.
Jubilee wants the IEBC to share with it a comprehensive, unedited soft copy of each polling station’s voter list.
Additionally, it demands complete remote access to smartphones used by all returning officers, servers at each constituency tallying center, and electronic devices used to transfer results to the tallying centres.
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“We also need certified copies of the raw images of forms prepared at and obtained from all the polling stations before they were converted to pdf format,” the letter reads in part.
“We also want the static IP address of each Kenya Integrated Election Management System (Kiems) kit used at each of the polling stations.”
Jubilee further requests that the IEBC give precise GPS coordinates for each Kiems kit and every polling station used between August 5 and August 15.
It also requests a certified list of all Kiems kits’ distinctive device identifiers, including the Media Access Control (MAC) address, IMEI numbers, SIM cards’ serial numbers in the order in which they were purchased (used, unused, and/or deployed during the election), as well as the Media Access Control (IMEI) address and MAC address.
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The party is also demanding electronic voter identification logs for Kiems kits used at polling places and constituency tallying centers.
Additionally, it requests the total number of voters—both those who were found and those who were not—identified by Kiems kits at all polling places using biometric information, alphanumeric searches, manual registers, and other methods.
Jubilee won 24 parliamentary seats, one governor seat (Isiolo), two woman rep seats in Isiolo and Nyamira and three Senate seats.
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