{"id":114668,"date":"2022-08-12T12:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T16:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=114668"},"modified":"2022-08-12T17:55:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T21:55:02","slug":"bbc-kenya-elections-long-wait-for-raila-odinga-and-william-ruto-in-poll-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=114668","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Kenya elections: Long wait for Raila Odinga and William Ruto in poll count"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenya’s vote counting system has not been hacked amid a tense wait for results of Tuesday’s presidential election, a top poll official has said.<\/p>\n

“Nothing like that has happened. It is misinformation,” said the electoral commission’s CEO Marjan Hussein Marjan.<\/p>\n

Social media has been awash with allegations that fake results have been uploaded as the count is verified.<\/p>\n

Media tallies show the two leading candidates – Raila Odinga and William Ruto – are neck and neck.<\/p>\n

But it is only the electoral commission that can declare the winner – and it has seven days to do so.<\/p>\n

“We anticipated that people would try to hack our systems… we assure the whole country that our systems are actually secure,” Mr Marjan told reporters on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Kenya elections: Long wait for Raila Odinga and William Ruto in poll count<\/p>\n

Kenya's vote counting system has not been hacked amid a tense wait for results of Tuesday's presidential election, a top poll official has said. \u2066@DickensOlewe<\/a>\u2069 https:\/\/t.co\/Gghsnr5mAd<\/a><\/p>\n

— Ashis Basu (@BasuAshis) August 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n