Supreme Court Orders IEBC to Give Raila Access to Election Results Servers and Ballot Boxes

The Supreme Court has ordered the IEBC to give Azimio presidential candidate Raila Odinga access to the servers used for storing and transmitting voting information for the presidential election.

The orders were issued on Tuesday during the pre-trial conference ahead of the hearing of the petition challenging president-elect William Ruto’s victory.

The electoral commission is required to give Odinga supervised access to any servers that may be storing forensically imaged information used to capture a copy of Form 34C.

Other petitioners who will be given access to the servers are Odinga’s running mate Martha Karua, Youth Advocacy for Africa (YAA), Peter Kirika, Khelef Khalifa, George Osewe, Ruth Mumbi and Grace Kamau.

The court further ordered the commission to provide the petitioners with copies of its technology system security policy comprising but not limited to password policy, password matrix, and owners of system administration password(s).

They will also be given information on the system users and levels of access, workflow chats for identification, tallying, transmission, and posting of portals.

Additionally, IEBC is required to provide its technology system security policy comprising any application programming interface (API) and the list of human interface and controls for such intervention. The provision is subject to any security-related issues.

Further to these, the apex court directed the commission to give Odinga access to ballot boxes for 16 polling stations for inspection, scrutiny and recount of votes.

The stations include Nandi Hills and Sinendeti Primary School in Nandi; Belgut, Kapsuser and Chepkutum Primary Schools in Kericho County; Jomvi, Mikindani and Ministry of Water Tanks Polling Stations in Mombasa County; Mvita, Majengo and Mvita Primary Schools in Mombasa County; Tinderet CONMO, in Nandi County; Jarok, Gathanji and Kiheo Primary School Polling in Nyandarua County.

Odinga and other petitioners believe the orders will help them to prove allegations that votes were rigged.