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. regards, Wamuyu ________________________________ From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Thu, 5 August, 2010 13:21:29 Subject: Re: [kictanet] electronic results Referendum system.. On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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.
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. I had expected to vote electronically, but it appears that only the registration was electronic, where I registered, but I am not complaining. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube