There are too many spoilt votes in this election.
The IEBC (Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commision) has said that spoilt votes will be used in the final tally when calculating the percentages.
Currently, the results are as follows; (as of 8 p.m. East African Time- noon Eastern Time USA)
Odinga (CORD) 2.1 Million.
Uhuru (JUBILEE) 2.7 million.
TOTAL REGISTERED VOTERS: 14 million.
IEBC voter turn out estimate: (70-75%)
Total votes counted so far are about 5.6 million.
There are about 350,000 spoilt votes and the reason is due to the various colours of the ballot boxes.
Voters cast their votes for six different candidates using six different ballots which are cast in six different boxes of different colours.
Each ballot of a certain colour is cast/put/dropped in a box of a corresponding colour ( FAILURE TO WHICH IT BECOMES A SPOILT VOTE).
Once this happens, it means that that particular voter will make at least two mistakes at once thus having two of his votes nullified (or more).
This is due to lack of voter education by the IEBC.
The votes released so far are provisional results and not official. The IEBC (The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commision) has not relayed any results yet. They start so tomorrow (Wed. March 6).
To win, one has to get (50% +1 vote) OF THE TOTAL VOTES CAST!
Failure to that, there will be a re vote of the top two and a simple majority will determine the winner.
So far, Raila has 42%.
Kenyatta has 53%.
Now the IEBC has said that they will compute percentages by including the spoilt votes. I think thdy are trying to ameliorate the problem that they (iebc reated). I hope they dont burn the country due to their incompetence.
By so doing, this will definitely lower the percentages thus triggering/forcing a re-run.
Jubilee (Uhuru's party has rejected this and threatened to go to court.)
Of course CORD (Raila's party is elated).
We hope there will be no violence.
This, I am sure is not the last time we are hearing of this. It will be a world wide issue.
LORD HELP US!