“If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would tell you the current commission is designed to fail in terms of structure and composition. Granted, there was a lot of commitment to get it right but we lost out to these interests," an ex-top IEBC official confessed. A current member of the commission who served through the 2013 period attests to the turbulence at play in the run up to the polls. In-depth interviews with commission insiders – current and past – and experts in elections attest to a largely poisoned chalice from which millions of voters were forced to drink on March 4, 2013. "The BVR drama spilled over to EVID which was supposed to ensure integrity of the process through unique identifier technology.

Source: Standard Digital May 28, 2016 21:00 UTC