I’m seeing some excited minority voters implying that the nominated Chairman of IEBC Edung Ethekon will help Ruto steal votes simply because he was working as an Attorney in Turkana County under Nanok who is currently working at Statehouse.
This is ridiculous!
Good people, the current constitution of Kenya has made it very hard or simply impossible to rig the elections using the long electoral process but one can simply compromise Agents at the polling station.
This is how it works; In every polling station, that is over 52K polling stations in Kenya, every political party is represented by an Agent.
The agent for the political party works hand in hand with a presiding officer within the polling stations during the voting and counting of the votes.
The formation of Party Agents works this way:
1. Wamunyoro Party will have one Agent in a polling station Called Hongwe Primary School stream 1
The Agent will count the votes cast for Matiangi/Kalonzo/RiggyG at that station and send the numbers to the Super Agent in the Constituency.
2. The Constituency Agents will then transfer the votes counted to the Super Agent in the County who will then send the same votes to the Wamunyoro National Tallying Centre for compilation.
Untill this moment, I have not mentioned The Chairman of the IEBC or any commissioner.
Now this is how the IEBC operates;
In every polling station, the chairman of the IEBC has contracted presiding officers, and Returning Officers in constituency level.
The work of the presiding officer is to capture the votes, take a photo using Kiems kit and send it directly to the National Tallying Centre. He then picks the manual paper and travel to the constituency tallying center, hand them over to the Returning officer who then travels manually to the National Tallying Centre to hand the over to the commissioners.
Where is the Chairman Edung?
The work of the chairman is simply to announce the results streaming in from the constituency level! That simple….
What I’m I saying ?
If any serious presidential candidate has serious agents and a serious Tallying Centre, you will know the number of votes you got immediately after the elections day.
FACT: During the 2022 elections, Ruto knew his total number of votes before Chebukati announced the result.
