IEBC printing 1M extra ballot papers allows room for rigging!

IEBC print more ballot papers for the upcoming general elections amounting to almost 800,000 ballot papers.
The commission says 6.5 per cent extra ballot papers were printing instead of 1 per cent earlier mentioned.

When Third way Alliance Party presidential candidate, Ekuru Aukot, claimed that nobody supervised the Al Ghurair printing on presidential ballot papers as required by the court ruling, we all thought these were flagged white smokes on erratic behaviors and lack of commitment that have been witnessed in this commission's deliberate unpreparedness to give Kenyans a credible and verifiable election come the 8th of August. To worsen that eye-sore report, the NASA representative to Al Ghurair firm never gave their reports on the findings at the Dubai based printers whose tenders had unanimously been declined by the NASA team.

It later appeared from IEBC haphazard and erratic tweets, that the IEBC has indeed confirmed that they printed 6.5 per cent extra ballot mounting to over 800,000 instead of 196,000 ballot papers to carter for spoilt votes in the upcoming elections, which until now we can not verify if indeed it was the number printed or another usual +or- lie figure.

The register at the IEBC had itself over 2 million dead voters, why then would IEBC go ahead to print extra 800,000 ballot papers for this elections considering the fact that from earlier thorough register scrutineer there were over 2 million dead voters on the IEBC register? It would only be common sense that the dead voters numbers present on that register would cancel out the expected number of spoilt votes.Common school of thought.

Secondly it was only fair that the printing of these ballot papers, especially the presidential papers, were supervised as unmarked, verified in terms of exact figures and numbers in their correct printing and parked unhampered for the coming elections. If the IEBC cannot be held accountable of its action at this stage by verification ,it will be too late for Kenya to cry foul. Kenyans have a right to fair, verifiable and credible election process.

"No agent, therefore, supervised the printing. We could not tell for sure that there was no mischief," Ekuru Aukot said.

This action therefore leaves a window that if utilized well by evil forces currently at play, could be used to rig this coming election easy by 6am.

This unfounded allegations arising few days to the general elections raises eyebrows on the voter's faith on the credibility of IEBC to give Kenya a fair and verifiable elections. Such an error would have been put into consideration and the number of ballot papers printed verified by the agents of political parties present at the Dubai firm.

It sure gives a perception that indeed NASA and its team had a reason to fear for the tender being awarded to the Al Ghurair plant. A case they won at the high court but lost at the court of appeal. Putting as at quagmire state where the Kenyan court systems is indeed reading from two different books. Such a window for rigging in this election should have been shut completely at the right time with urgency and for the assurance and faith of Kenyan voter on the IEBC to conduct a free, fair, verifiable and credible general elections in August 8th. Otherwise, it would be a waste of Kenyan resources and precious time to conduct another sham election as of the 2013.

This report, unfortunately, highlights concerns of all Kenyans and international observers are having. I hope IEBC can live up to a credible and verifiable election first before we start placarding messages of peace as though we are war on national televisions!