[kictanet] Elections 2013: BVR Kits a raw deal for Kenyans

[Dennis Kioko]

On 29 November 2012 16:33, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now. I suspect that during the elections there will be folks who will get
> to the voting booth only to find their records missing. What form of
> redundancy is there? What if one of the flash disks gets a virus and
> accidentally gets wiped? So many things could go wrong.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
Well, as predicted, some IEBC records somewhere are missing, due to
computer "issues"  http://the-star.co.ke/news/article-104623/corridors-power


>
> On 29 Nov 2012, at 16:07, meshack emakunat <memakunat at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> True true true. I mean how do you replace paper with an old skull computer
> then chest thumb that ur updated. Its just too shallow for a 55% of Kenyans
> who claim to be educated or rather literate too be hoodwinked. I have
> always thought smthig was a miss especially when in a connected world
> someone literally claims they cannot communicate with others in the other
> end of the world. Something that I do everyday in less than a
> minute..(claim dat they are incapable of haandling the exercise from
> foreign ground )
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android
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> * Subject: * [kictanet] Elections 2013: BVR Kits a raw deal for Kenyans
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>   Hello Kenyans
> Kenyans were conned, or something is afoot:I was listening to Lincoln
> Njogu's interview on Radio Citizen this morning and it came out from the
> IIEBC representative that the BVR kits are not networked. This confirmed my
> suspicion the day I went to register as a voter. After looking and missing
> seeing any device that would provide network connectivity on the equipment,
> I asked the clerks if the voters details are updated in the central
> database realtime and their answer was a NO. They send a flash disk to some
> place every evening to have the records updated on something. And the way I
> thought this was a "connected" (networked) system. No wonder the minister
> said the Diaspora will not vote this time round. IIEBC says otherwise, but
> don't say how they will vote. Kenyans WERE CONNED. These are standalone
> electronic records, we just did put paper away, but I can bet my life the
> system can be manipulated to serve sinister interests. My take on this
> nonsense called BVR. Nonsense!--
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
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