Former Attorney General Amos Wako has stated that the 2022 general elections server audit should not be used to challenge the verdict of the presidential petition but to facilitate in assessing electoral system weaknesses.
Speaking before the National Dialogue Committee, Wako stated that the Supreme Court has constitutional jurisdiction to determine electoral outcome disputes; hence, the server audit cannot subvert the apex court's decision.
“The audit cannot reverse the decision of the Supreme Court; it’s a constitutional and legal process. The audit is like a post mortem which cannot revise the dead body but can tell you the cause of the dead body,” he said.
In his submission before the 10-member team, Wako termed the election server audit as an aftermath process aimed at curing the shortcomings in the polls.
“We want to identify the weaknesses, loopholes, and shortfalls in the polls which can be rectified before the next election. This is the only way we can improve the electoral process and instill confidence of the people in it,” Wako said.
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Further, the former Attorney General stated that proper mechanisms in the law must be instituted to ensure mandatory election audits after every election cycle.
Wako explained that the voter’s confidence in the electoral agency is wilted in the process of tallying and declaring the election outcome further causing voter apathy among the electorate.
“The more debate on the opening of the election servers, the more suspicion are raised. That where there is no smoke there must be some fire,” he said.
“If the doubts are not cleared,it could erode the confidence in future elections and reduce the figure of people participating in such elections.”
Access to IEBC systems, according to Raila Odinga, is required to confirm the outcome of the 2022 presidential election.
On the other side, the Kenya Kwanza alliance maintains that they cannot unlock the servers because they do not have access to the servers.
According to Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, the 2022 general election servers will not be audited despite opposition leaders' calls for this to happen.
