Anyone with just a little knowledge in how to handle files knows that there is a simple way to have a back up. You just take the stack of papers and put them into a Canon Irc 2880i and copy them to the network as *pdf files. It’s done in a wink of an eye. It doesn’t matter weather if it is 500 or 5000 documents or whatever, they will scan easy to any computer and can be duplicated as many times as preferred. And easily encrypted for security reasons. I find it extremely remarkable that the election authorities in Kenya does not have electronically back-up of such crucial documents. Could it be that they can’t afford to by a Canon Printer/Scanner. I don’t think so. That cost is just “peanuts” compared to what all other surrounding costs are like. To me it looks like a blame game. A good way of loosing document you want to get rid of and blaming some one else maybe. So am I to believe that the Electoral Commission only has one set of documentation of the election? That’s just too good to be true. An even if they were deleted from a computer they are not gone all together but can be retrieved with a bit of hacking. Just ask anyone who knows just a little bit of computer science. It is so obviously not anything worth paying attention to, just smokescreens…… / Z

That was to be expected as the modus operandi of the repugnant commission. RINGERA should look into Kivuitu and his deputy, his silence has been rather deafenning in the course of the crissis , one wonders what was going through the august directors mind, hopefully not weighing the bread and butter while blood was flowing in all the major cities of kenya.

MOST KENYANS HOPE THAT MUTHAURA WILL BE KIND ENOUGH TO SLIP BACK INTO RETIREMENT FROM WHICH HE CAME, WE MAY NOT HAVE MORE DEATHS. HAVING THE ARMY OUT IS NOT A SOLUTION NO NEED TO START A CIVIL.

If civil society are 'civil' let them go for a due process mobocrazy will not solve anything. Lets unravell this puzzle. They should not forget that they contributed to this mess in a big way. Condeming ECK without following the laws of this land will take them nowhere. Since they are time barred to go to court let them wait for the commitee being formed to finish its work of auditing the elections.