[kictanet] IEBC Voting Day Technical Audit

[Daniel Mbugua]

Ali +1


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Andrea Bohnstedt <
andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com> wrote:

> The longer you wait with an audit, the more difficult it will be to do
> (never mind the whole 'accepting and moving on' propaganda). And if you
> wait until a year before the next election, you deliberately cut down the
> time you have to fix anything.
>
> On 29 May 2013 08:39, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>
>> Walu
>>
>> I respectfully disagree.
>>
>> The Emperor was found to be naked. So let the emperor be cleansed and new
>> clothes provided to ensure that going forward no one can claim that the
>> emperor was naked when he wasn't. And we need not wait for a year before
>> the elections. This needs to be done now and tested in the myriad of by
>> elections that are inevitable through petitions etc.
>>
>> This country must live up to its hype of being the ICT Hub for Africa.
>>
>> The IEBC needs to be cleansed. This wasn't an issue of technology failing
>> but the leadership failing. An audit need not stop at IT Systems as in my
>> humble opinion that is a red herring.
>>
>> My two cowrie shells.
>>
>> Ali Hussein
>> CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd
>> Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd
>>
>> +254 713 601113
>>
>> "The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On May 29, 2013, at 8:19 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> @Mwangi,
>>
>> Two things.
>>
>> 1. IEBC cannot purpot to audit themselves. Same thing as cops trying to
>> investigate themselves - they will try to cover their xyz.
>> 2. I think it would be some unnecessary distraction at this moment in
>> time to do an independent audit.
>>
>> My take is that we have some independent audit much later - say a year
>> before the next election as a way of "lessons learnt" rather than now where
>> the audit action maybe misinterprated to mean  "whom do we blame". In such
>> circumstances, IEBC officials will naturally be protective rather than
>> facilitative.
>>
>> walu.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 8:46 PM AST (Arabian) Mark Mwangi wrote:
>>
>> Listers,
>>
>>
>> Now that the elections are long over and nation building is ongoing, is
>>
>> there an Audit being prepared by the IEBC to explain exactly what
>> happened.
>>
>> If there is none then why not?
>>
>>
>> Are we to accept that the billions spent are gone and accept the results
>> of
>>
>> the wastage?
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Mark Mwangi
>>
>>
>> markmwangi.me.ke
>>
>>
>>
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