<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><DIV>Clarification Washington. The electronic voter register was fine - people were successfully identified through it (please note that all voting was manual - on a piece of paper that was manually counted). Its the tallying system that I was referring to.</DIV>
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<DIV>regards, Wamuyu<BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thu, 5 August, 2010 13:21:29<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [kictanet] electronic results Referendum system..<BR></FONT><BR><BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Wamuyu Gatheru <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk">wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>Am not so sure that the system was a success. Over one third of polling stations failed to transmit electronically for various reasons including poor network (5,964 failed of a total of 20,750 polling stations). This would be chaos for a general election.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Being the first time it was used on a very large scale, almost a replica of a general election, I think they have done very well. They now have the information required to fine tune the system for the GE. </DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I had expected to vote electronically, but it appears that only the registration was electronic, where I registered, but I am not complaining.<BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Best regards,<BR>Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<BR>Nairobi,KE<BR>+254733744121/+254722743223<BR>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ <BR>"If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!."<BR> -- Lucky Dube<BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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