Hi Areba, M-Kurt good idea but we will know who voted for whom as there is a digital signature, it is important that it one person right to maintain their privacy, therefore M-Kurt will not be a viable option, there will be polling stations, that will have some kind of booths, electronic ballot papers and a way to confirm you have been to the polling station to vote. The biometric technology deployed was to ensure one person votes and also there are few approaches in profiling the individual, here the civil biometric specification is used, the criminal biometric registers hold a lot more data and and require some heavy processing. The approach on the biometrics was ill implemented as there is not a proper central register, let's ask the IEBC to confirm this, as if there was then you can cast your vote at any polling station within your local area and not only the polling station, here I mean by I am able to cast my vote for Westlands at any of the 4/5 polling stations, this can evenly distribute the crowds, by telling and individual the length of a queue and where the shortest waiting times are, we can be cute in providing this type of Information... Hey the country came to a halt for many days. Coming to the transmission technology, it was not tested and hardened and settled as a technology. Again, when we spoke to IFES we were told that they were being held up by the IEBC. Coming to the national plundering of funds, that only the Financial Reporting Centre team can pin point who is bring in large sums of cash from large companies and take them to task on Antimoney laundering regulation combined with the financial and foreign currency bureaus, we will leave them to do their jobs professionally. Finally, we have also set a precedence that this plundering is allowed in the spirit of public interest, this only happens in Africa and the rest of the world. It is very interesting all claim not to participate in the corrupt practices, in some part of the world they have a set rule of 7% - 8%, here we have what can we get away or the best offer on the table, and result is failed IT system that require a bit more planning and care in implementation, but these guys have had their bonuses and do they care, it is a once in a lifetime opportunity. The great thing to see it has been a peaceful elections, and that is a great start to the next 50 years..... Thanks Best Regards, Baiju Sent from my iPad On 11 Mar 2013, at 21:31, kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke wrote:

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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:18:01 -0500 From: Warigia Bowman <warigia@gmail.com> To: Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] how positive can foreign media be? Message-ID: <CACeY99RBicafnGSE8QtMcpFunaAYA5Nd2ZcekoD=Xi4Puim+gQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"

Personally, I am feeling very angry at the foreign media. Thanks Evans for this shocking ridiculousness. we need to expose them!

I wrote this yesterday.

http://digitaldemocracykenya.blogspot.com/2013/03/feeling-frustrated-with-ch...

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote:

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Wow, this is a gem from Time:

"At this election, with a new 2010 constitution, and a new electoral body with a new ? though not glitch-free ? electronic voting system, Kenyans? determination to hold a peaceful election has been palpable. *The popular mood has also been notably anti-Western. Foreign diplomats have been warned of blood-curdling revenge should they interfere in the poll*. *Foreign journalists have been publicly ridiculed and denounced as prejudiced if they predicted chaos and disaster.* And a central message of most candidates? campaigns was strident, patriotic self-determination."

Read more: http://world.time.com/2013/03/09/kenyas-election-what-uhuru-kenyattas-victor...

-- *---------------------------------------------------- Kind Regards, Evans Ikua,*

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