The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is now looking for technology companies to bid for the multi-billion upgrade of the elections' software and hardware, and also for the results transmission system (RTS). The bug made the system to multiply the rejected votes by a factor of eight, and the IEBC had to suspend it. In the last elections, the IEBC tapped into the Safaricom mobile network, where it was given a secure Virtual Private Network for the transmission of results. But Friday's poll was for Members of County Assembly, and the IEBC appears to have placed little importance on the place of technology. IEBC has an election management system for managing nominations and another for the transmission of results from the polling centres to the tallying centres at the constituencies, the counties and to the national tallying centre in Nairobi.

Source: Standard Digital June 05, 2016 20:37 UTC