[kictanet] Next Elections and ICT

[Tony White]

It may not be possible to do this within the 56 days remaining till
the repeat election, but:

If the supreme court upholds the judgement of the appeal court in the
'Maina Kiai' case - that the result at the polling station is final -
then:

The scanned image of the form 34A should (if not already) include
metadata identifying the polling station, total registered voters,
votes for candidates as counted, etc.

This should then be transmitted to a directory on the public portal
for immediate viewing by **any** interested party - including members
of the public, IEBC, constituency returning officers, and political
parties.

ie - **not** 'uploaded' to an intermediate IEBC server.

IEBC may then use the metadata for separate 'totals' display - as may
anyone else

Of course, party agents must ensure and agree the figures entered as
metadata reflect the figures manually entered on the scanned form.

Only **one** item (the form 34A) is then transmitted.

On another note: mathematically - statistically - results from random
polling stations will quickly converge to percentages close to the
final result (as we saw in the August 8th election).  To prove this,
put 10,000 (or 1,000,000 or whatever you like) balls into a (virtual)
bag - 60% red and 40% black - and pluck out 100 balls at a time
(randomly) and calculate % red and % black - and keep doing this, 100
at a time.  Someone may care to knock up a quick program to do this.
After only a few pluckings, the percentages quickly converge on the
60/40 percentages.

My thoughts,

Cheers,
Tony


On 04/09/2017, Dorcas Muthoni via kictanet
<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> Great question Mutemi,
>
> In the meantime, anyone who knows where to get the registrar's ICT report
> from the IEBC server access tabled during the petition? I imagine it's a
> public document.
>
> It would be great to review the larger document.  I believe that would be a
> good starting point.
>
> On Sep 4, 2017 10:32 AM, "Mutemi wa Kiama via kictanet" <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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Tony White