[kictanet] Has the ICT Sector Failed?

[n_macharia at yahoo.co.uk]

Listers do We recall this!?

Electronic Voting Systems in Africa
 ICT Africa Writer
February 26, 2013

With the help of Google and mobile phone companies in Kenya, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission is implementing an electronic voting system. The commission has come up with a plan that will guarantee election transparency and quick delivery of election results. 

"Results from each of the polling stations will be transmitted to three counting centres, using the Electronic Results Transmission (ERT) platform. With rapid delivery of results, suspicion of results tempering will hopefully be put to rest."

After Kenya has pioneered this form of voting system in Africa, we hope other countries in Africa, including Zimbabwe, will follow their steps....???

And this why we need to investigate what happened. This will provide the much neeed lessons for others 

 The objective was  "election transparency and quick transmission of results to rid kenyans of tampering suspicion "
.who is fooling who?

Nancy
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David,
The system was bound to crash if the server capacity was not able to process multiple transactions.  This is what happened with KNEC twice. Had we outsourced processing to a large data centre like the Safaricom one, we could have finished the processing in a matter of hours.

Further, someone should have informed Safaricom that the server processing capacity could not handle huge number of transactions in which case Safaricom would have slowed the feed to allow the number of transactions it could handle.  This is like trying to pump water from a two inch pipe through a half inch pipe.  Pressure increases and eventually the pipes snap.

This is all water under the bridge now.  We now must examine the problem and avoid the mistakes in the future.

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Daktari, we are not talking abt the human errors of the voting process. That was manual. Rather we are interested and reviewing what happened to the IT part of the exercise! The transmission of the results did not simply fail from overload or any technical hiccup. What exactly transpired that isaack is only referring to euphemistically as "technical challenges"? 

Am sure you know that the system did not just malfunction but suffered frm manipulation. I stand to be correcyted but Can a system trigger itself to generate results and alter its data transmission  logs? Lets just say all of us are being patriotic and acting in the national interest at this time but sm1 should not think we are fooled. The truth will sooner than later become apparent.

But i truly appreciate your contribution.
- Makali 
 
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David,
A lot has been said in the social media trying to advance different theories of. Why the systems failed  but what will matter are the final vote count. These were just provisional results that were to be verified before announcing the winner and were to be transmitted within a given time.  Electronic results were to be like exit polls.  There were human errors that should not have happened.  Look at the number of spoilt votes.  Can we say it was sabotage?

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Why is this being addressed as IT "failure" and not "sabotage"?. I would think failure is when a system "fails" to function according to its intended or programmed purpose and not when its "functioning" is interfered with so as to derail it from performing the set task.



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