Presiding officers will not send the 2022 presidential election results as text because it was misused in 2017, IEBC has said.
Instead, they will deliver an image of the results to a public portal.
The image will be of form 34A, used to tabulate the presidential election results, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) commissioner Justus Nyang’aya said.
“We have decided [this] after the supreme court asked us what we consider as the result. We have form 34A that is serialized and has security features,” he said during the IEBC national election conference held in Nairobi on July 11-12.
“After a vote count, the presiding officer will record the result on this physical form and take a photo of the result. That form is the result, which will be sent to the returning officer in Nairobi at the national tallying centre.”
Presiding officers will first send form 34A as an image to a public portal established by IEBC and then deliver it in person.
“We will compare that image and the result that came from the polling station—and that polling station is uniquely marked. So, we will know it has come from polling station A and not Z,” the commissioner said.
“That is when IEBC will tabulate and release that result for Kenyans to see.”
The result transmission system is part of the election technology IEBC is adopting for the 2022 ballot.
Nyang’aya said IEBC used technology in voter registration and will deploy it during identification and results management.
In this video, Nyang’aya gives an in-depth explanation of the technology. Watch.
