Kenyan opposition alliance says electoral authority has ignored court order
Nairobi — Kenya’s main opposition party said the electoral authority had failed to heed a court order allowing scrutiny of the body’s computer servers as it seeks to prove this month’s presidential election was rigged. Members of the National Super Alliance waited at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission’s (IEBC) offices until at least 3.30am on Tuesday to access the servers, coalition spokesman Dennis Onyango said by text message. The authority had provided "less than 1%" of what the court ordered the authority to allow the opposition to access, he said. The alliance alleges that members of Kenya’s ruling Jubilee Party hacked the IEBC’s system to ensure President Uhuru Kenyatta won a second term in elections on August 8. The coalition wants access to the IEBC’s servers to scrutinise whether ballot tallies issued by polling stations differ from results disseminated by the electoral authority. The Supreme Court ordered on Monday that the alliance submit a report on its ...
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