The IEBC has outlined the votes tallying process right from polling stations to the final announcement of presidential results.
Jubilee Party leader Uhuru Kenyatta and NASA principal Raila Odinga are the main opponents in the elections that is 12 days away.
After results are tallied and announced at polling stations, chairman Wafula Chebukati said, Presiding Officers will type them, as captured in Form 34A, into KIEMS tablets.
The POs will then scan the forms using the tablet and confirm that the typed results and those on the scanned form are accurate.
They will then transmit the results electronically to the constituency tallying centre and the national tallying centre at Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi.
Form 34A will then be made available on the IEBC’s online portal, Chebukati said in a statement to the media on Wednesday.
At the constituency tallying centre, the Returning Officer will receive the forms from all the polling stations, collate results from it and then prepare form 34B.
The officer there will then announce results of the presidential election in that constituency before scanning F34B and sending it to Bomas.
He is also expected to receive physical copies of Form 34As and deliver them, together with Form 34B, to the national tallying centre for archiving.
COLLATION, VALIDATION TEAMS
For presidential results to be declared, the scanned Form 34Bs will be received by two designated officers before authentication.
The two officers will do this in the presence of the chief agents of the eight Presidential candidates.
After this process, the commission said, officers, will serialise received forms and hand them over to the Collation Team.
“The Collation Team will generate relevant sections of F34C and hand the same to the Validation Team,” he said.
Chebukati said that there are six collation teams to serve the 47 counties.
He added that the Validation Team will be required to verify that the F34C is complete and accurate in relation to the results from the 290 constituencies.
Chebukati said the Validation Team will then hand the form to Commissioners and he will use it to declare the final results of presidential elections.
IEBC also made announcements concerning the powers of presiding officers and police.
“The power conferred on presiding officers and a police officer shall extend to a radius of not more than 400m from the center of the polling station.”
After voting one is only allowed to stay beyond a distance of 400 metres from the polling station.
Presiding officers will have permission to disperse crowds that my block exit or entrances to polling stations.
Chebukati said IEBC shall deploy at least two officers per polling station.
“Their role will be to secure election materials as well as maintain order. While working at the polling station they will be under the leadership of the presiding officers,” he said.
Source: The Star
