Judges of Kenya’s supreme court said they were not persuaded by the allegation that the technology failed the test of integrity, verifiability, security and transparency, the chief justice says.
Judges looking at issue of inteference
The second issue that was raised by the petitioners was whether there was interference with the results as uploaded to the electoral commission’s portal.
No evidence that results system was tampered with
The chief justice says there was no evidence that anyone accessed the results transmission system to tamper with the results. She says the commission sufficiently explained how the system captured the results forms.
She adds that the argument that theintegrity of the public portal was compromised was disproved.
Did the technology work?
Chief Justice Martha Koome is talking about the technology used.
She says the judges have looked at whether the technology deployed by the electoral commission met the standards of integrity, verifiability, security and transparency to guaranty accurate and verifiable results?
A lack of trust in the electoral system has endured for a long time, she adds, this led to the introduction of technology follow the 2007 election