By PATRICK LANG'ATMore by this AuthorThe electoral commission has promised fool-proof elections on August 8. People failed technology,” IEBC Information Technology director Chris Msando told an elections cyber security forum at a Nairobi hotel on Monday. To mitigate the problems, he said, the IEBC bought the machines at least 90 days to elections, trained staff and tested about 10,000 of the kits that will be used in the polls. FULLY CHARGEDTo address the issue of power, the machines, when fully charged, will now last up to 24 hours. Unlike in 2013 when different aspects of the kits were used in different roles, they will carry out the identification, tabulate the results and be used in transmission of results.

Source: Daily Nation June 12, 2017 20:15 UTC