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EU Observers Confirm Presidential Poll Was Not Rigged

EU Observers Confirm Presidential Poll Was Not Rigged
EU Observers Confirm Presidential Poll Was Not Rigged

Discrepancies in number of votes cast in presidential and other races in the March 4 poll were not as a result of fraud, says the European Union.

Instead, the union believes, they were caused by tallying errors by election officials who were under pressure to do their jobs.

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In its final report on the elections released on Wednesday, the EU Elections Observer Mission says even though it noted widespread minor discrepancies in the tallies, theย differencesย were less than one per cent.

โ€œThis can be accounted for on the whole by tallying errors, as intention to cheat would normally be indicated by much largerย differencesย in the numbers,โ€ says the report released by Chief Observer Alojz Peterle. โ€œThere was no overallย patternfavouring one candidate or anotherโ€ฆThe one per cent figure tends to imply tallying errors rather than fraud.โ€

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The observers carried outย comparisonsย based on sets of results obtained at the close of tallying or afterwards.

โ€œThese revealed relatively small inconsistencies, particularly between results announced at the constituency or county level, as compared with official results published at the national level,โ€ reads the report. โ€œThis may be explained by insufficient clear procedures and training, inadequate tools and human error under pressure.โ€

Tallying of results, the document says, was not transparent, beginning with the absence of detailed proceduralย guidelinesย in the public domain.

Even though observers and party agents had access to constituency and county tallying centres, it says, they could not closely follow the process.

Mr Peterle pointed out the failure on the application of technology as one of the major let-downs of the election. This, he said, was due to the attempt to introduce new technology less than a year and in some cases,ย monthsย prior to the elections.

The observers also reveal Electronic Voterย Identificationย Devices were not working or were used in about half the polling stations they observed.

Source-dailynation.co.ke

EU Observers Confirm Presidential Poll Was Not Rigged

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