Compiled By Markson Omagor
(SOURCE: BBC)
WORLD
The four IEBC Commissioners who have disowned what they call ‘Chebukati Presidential results’ have pointed to mathematical absurdity pertaining to the results aggregated by the IEBC Chair.
They accuse Chebukati of declaring results whose total percentage is 100.01 representing an extra 142,000 votes.
Another critical look into the declared results shows a discrepancy between what Chebukati declared as total votes cast and total votes garnered by all the presidential candidates.
Chebukati announced that the total valid votes was 14,213,137 but when you add total votes garnered by all the candidates, you get 14,213,027.
An analysis of the results by BBC Reality Check shows the anomaly arose from entries of the votes for two counties which doesn’t correspond to votes garnered by all the candidates.
For Kilifi county in coastal Kenya, there is a difference of 10 votes and for West Pokot in the Rift Valley there is a difference of 100 votes between the votes the candidates got and the total valid votes listed for the county.
Kilifi – 285496 while all the candidates got 285486
West Pokot – 173705 while votes for the candidates are 173605
It is not clear whether this was just a human error.
