{"id":5505,"date":"2008-01-02T13:33:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T21:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2008-01-02T14:34:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T22:34:20","slug":"kenyas-contested-election-demonstrates-vital-necessity-of-precinct-based-counting-reporting-of-tallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5505","title":{"rendered":"Kenya’s Contested Election Demonstrates Vital Necessity of PRECINCT-BASED Counting, Reporting of Tallies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reports<\/a> of hundreds dead in violent riots following Kenya’s recent Presidential election continue. In the contested race, the incumbent President Kibaki was announced the winner, despite “pre-election opinion polls and early media tallies” which suggest that the challenger, Odinga, should have won.<\/p>\n

Of particular note however, was this instructive graf, from AFX News Limited’s coverage<\/a> over the holiday, which caught our eye…<\/p>\n

[Chief EU observer Alexander Graf Lambsdorff] said his mission had evidence of presidential tallies announced in polling stations on the election being inflated by the time they were released by the electoral commission in Nairobi.<\/div>\n

Got that? Because results were announced at the polling place before being sent away<\/i>, it was possible for there to be checks and balances by election observers against the official central count as released, and possibly gamed, by the centralized election officials.<\/p>\n

We’d hope the above point will be carefully noted<\/strong> by folks like Ohio SoS Jennifer Brunner, who has recently recommended against<\/em> decentralized precinct-based counting, in favor of central county-level counting (see our recent exclusive interview<\/a> with her on those points); those who have been pushing for all Vote-by-Mail elections of late; and those folks who are monitoring Iowa’s caucuses<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reports of hundreds dead in violent riots following Kenya’s recent Presidential election continue. In the contested race, the incumbent President Kibaki was announced the winner, despite “pre-election opinion polls and early media tallies” which suggest that the challenger, Odinga, should have won. Of particular note however, was this instructive graf, from AFX News Limited’s coverage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,347,348],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-irregularities","category-kenya","category-vote-by-mail","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}