No glaring issues after scrutiny of nine ballot boxes
Presidential ballot forms were verified and counted by Supreme Court officials in the presence of legal officers and party agents after they were delivered by officials from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to the Supreme Court of Kenya on August 31, 2022.
The nine boxes were from Majengo and Mvita primary schools in Mombasa County.
The numbers matched what was in Form 34A and declaration result forms held by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) in the ballot boxes.
However, some issues emerged such as failure to fill Form 34A, failure to seal rejected ballot papers, lack of stamps and missing physical voters’ registers.
Scrutiny of the first batch of ballot boxes and recounting of votes ordered by the Supreme Court failed to yield any glaring discrepancies in presidential election results.
At the time of going to press, only nine out of 45 ballot boxes had been opened, scrutinised and votes recounted in an exercise that was supervised by the registrar of the Supreme Court, Ms Letizia Wachira, and her staff.
