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MARSABIT Network Gap Brief: Polling Station Connectivity and 2027 Tally Risk
County-level connectivity risk brief for MARSABIT: where transmission can fail and how campaign teams should prepare.
WEST POKOT Network Gap Brief: Polling Station Connectivity and 2027 Tally Risk
County-level connectivity risk brief for WEST POKOT: where transmission can fail and how campaign teams should prepare.
TURKANA Network Gap Brief: Polling Station Connectivity and 2027 Tally Risk
County-level connectivity risk brief for TURKANA: where transmission can fail and how campaign teams should prepare.
Biometric Voter Verification: How 88.6% of Voters Were Fingerprinted in 2017
The 2017 election was a massive test of biometric technology. IEBC deployed 10,667 KIEMS kits to verify voters by finger...
Parallel Vote Tallying: Why Agents Photograph Form 34A and How Votrack Helps
Parallel Vote Tallying (PVT) allows parties to independently verify official results by collecting station-level data fr...
The BVR Kit Crisis: 27% of Election Technology Had Hardware Defects
The IEBC deployed 9,976 BVR kits for the 2017 election. But 2,692 hardware defects were recorded across critical compone...
Digital Democracy: 3,032 Polling Stations Had ZERO Network Coverage in 2017
Kenya's 2017 election depended on digital results transmission. But 3,032 of 40,883 polling stations had zero network co...
KIEMS Kit and Biometric Voter Verification: What Agents Need to Know
The Kenya Integrated Election Management System (KIEMS) kit is the technological backbone of modern Kenyan elections. It...
The Agent Communication Hierarchy: How Election Results Flow from Station to Headquarters
Kenya's election agent communication hierarchy has four tiers: Polling Station Agent, Constituency Chief Agent, County C...
The Role of Social Media in 2022: WhatsApp, TikTok, and the New Campaign Trail
Kenya's 2022 election was the first where social media spending rivaled traditional media budgets. WhatsApp groups becam...
Data Integrity in 2022: How the Results Verification Process Actually Worked
From the moment a presiding officer finishes counting ballots to the moment the IEBC chairperson declares results at Bom...
The Media on Election Night: How TV Stations Covered the 2022 Count
Kenya's 2022 election night coverage was a marathon of live broadcasting, data dashboards, and pundit analysis. Here's h...