Nairobi — Observers piled pressure on Kenya’s election commission on Thursday to finish publishing results forms from every polling station, a day after the opposition said it would challenge the presidential outcome in court. Defeated opposition leader Raila Odinga claims the electronic results were hacked and manipulated to hand victory to President Uhuru Kenyatta. He plans to take his complaint to the Supreme Court. The failure of the Independent Election and Boundaries Commission to publish all 40,883 "34A" forms, as required by law, makes it impossible to verify the presidential result, which last week gave Kenyatta 54% of the vote. The Carter Centre election observation mission, headed by former US secretary of state John Kerry, said it urged the commission "to finalise the posting of the 34As as expeditiously as possible". "Access to official results data is critical for interested parties so that they can crosscheck and verify results and exercise their right to petition if ...
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