The pre-trial hearing of the presidential petitions is currently underway before 7 judges of the Supreme Court.
The hearing is being led by Chief Justice Martha Koome, who listed 9Â issues that emerged across all the pleadings, submissions and documents that were submitted to the Supreme Court. The judges will be determining the following matters;
Whether the technology deployed by IEBC deployed by IEBC for the conduct of the 2022 General Election met the standards of integrity, verifiability, security and transparency to guarantee accurate and verifiable results.
The second issue is whether there was interference in the uploading and transmission of Forms 34A from polling station to IEBC public portal.
Thirdly; Whether there was a difference between Forms 34A uploaded on IEBC public portal and Forms34 A received at the national tallying Center and Forms 34 A issued to the agents at polling stations.
“Issue number four; Whether the postponement of Gubernatorial Elections in Kakamega and Mombasa Counties, Parliamentary elections in Kitui Rural, Kacheliba Rongai and Pokot South Constituencies and electoral wards in Nyaki West in North Imenti Constituency and Kwa Njenga in Embakasi South Constituency resulted in voter suppression to the detriment petitioners( Raila Odinga and Martha Karua) in petition number E005 of 2022,” Koome read.
Other issues that emerged were whether there were discrepancies between votes casts for presidential candidates and other elective positions, if IEBC carried out verification tallying and declaration of results in accordance with the provisions of Article 138 (3c) and Article 138 (10) of the Constitution and whether Ruto, the declared president-elect attained 50 per cent +1 in accordance with Article 138 (4) of the Constitution.
The final issue is whether there were irregularities of such magnitude as to affect the final results of the presidential election.
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