The seven Supreme Court of Kenya judges are issuing their verdict on the consolidated presidential election petitions today.
Chief Justice Martha Koome says that the court will issue a summary of the ruling today and then give the full judgment after 21 days.
Here are the highlights of the orders given:
Issue 1:
Whether the technology deployed by the IEBC for the conduct of the 2022 general elections met the standards of integrity, verifiability, security and transparency to guarantee accurate and verifiable results.
Order: We are not persuaded that the technology deployed failed to meet the standards of Article 86A on integrity.
Issue 2:
Whether there was interference with the uploading and transmission of Forms 34A from the polling stations to the IEBC Public Portal.
Order: Court finds no credible evidence to prove that anyone accessed, intercepted or changed the voter results forms loaded on a public portal by the IEBC.
Issue 3:
Whether there was a difference between Forms 34A uploaded on the IEBC Public Portal and Forms 34A received at the National Tallying Centre and Forms 34A issued to the Agents at the Polling Stations.
Order: Supreme Court finds no significant n
Supreme Court finds petitioners presented fake logs to prove alleged interference in public portal. Some of the logs were from 2017 or “outright forgeries.”
Supreme Court lampoons witnesses in support of the presidential election petitions after it found some swore false information before the court. Advocates who administered the affidavits warned for standing by false evidence, which it termed “double hearsay.”
Lawyer Julie Soweto lampooned for the sensational presentation of false evidence in court. Supreme Court says it was satisfied with IEBC admission of the inadvertent similar serial numbering of Kiems kits.
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