BY OLIVER MATHENGE AN audit of the March 4 election results has - TopicsExpress

BY OLIVER MATHENGE AN audit of the March 4 election results has revealed that 2,585 out of 32,095 polling streams are still missing Forms 34 on the official IEBC website. Mars Group Kenya has said although the results of the missing streams were not included, the audit identified discrepancies between the presidential tally announced by the IEBC and the figure computed from the Form 34 sheets the commission made public. “We do note, however, that whereas the missing stream Forms 34 may reduce the overall discrepancy in county election results, the Form 34 discrepancies suggests a serious tallying problem that could alter the official final national presidential vote tally per candidate that was announced by the IEBC,” the lobby group said in its report yesterday. The IEBC, however, defended itself in a statement to the Star that all the physical forms are available and safely stored. IEBC communication officer Andrew Limo said they are checking if there are any missing forms as alleged. He said those that are not available will be uploaded. “We are checking if the forms were not scanned and uploaded to the website. But we have all the hard copies safely stored and their contents were captured in the tabulation of the results. We will upload any missing copy,” Limo said. According to the audit, the missing forms must produce 943,520 votes with President Uhuru Kenyatta’s being 360,370 against former Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s 467,305 for the IEBC official results to be correct and valid.