African Elections Project (Accra)

Kenya: Tech Hitches Cause Anxiety in Kenyan General Elections

6 March 2013
Photo: Capital FM
Ballot paper(file photo): The electoral commission has taken to manual counting after the electronic system failed to transmit provisional figures.

Kenya entered the second day of vote counting Wednesday as network connectivity, data transmission and server configuration issues hindered the final result announcement, causing anxiety.

Voting started on Monday and results were expected to be electronically relayed from polling stations by Tuesday night, the final results were expected to be announced. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) had put in place an elaborate system that would ensure that presiding officers in 33,000 polling stations would be able to send information via mobile phones to the IEBC national tallying center and at the same time, make the data available to media houses and developers via an API provided by Google according to CFO WORLD.

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