{"id":62973,"date":"2017-09-01T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62973"},"modified":"2017-09-01T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T12:20:49","slug":"kenyan-supreme-court-nullifies-election-calls-for-new-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62973","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Kenyan Supreme Court Nullifies Election, Calls for New Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s supreme court on Friday annulled the country\u2019s presidential election results and called for a new poll to be held within 60 days, a surprise ruling that plunged one of Africa\u2019s top economies into a new period of uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>The bench ruled in favor of the petition filed by opposition candidate Raila Odinga, who claimed the electoral commission\u2019s IT system had been hacked to manipulate the results. Kenya\u2019s election commission had declared incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta the winner of the poll, which was held peacefully and lauded by international observers.<\/p>\n<p>The court judgment, which said the Aug. 8 election contained irregularities and wasn\u2019t conducted in accordance with the constitution, marks the first presidential election to be annulled in Kenya\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/kenya-supreme-court-nullifies-election-calls-for-new-vote-1504260050\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s supreme court on Friday annulled the country\u2019s presidential election results and called for a new poll to be held within 60 days, a surprise ruling that plunged one of Africa\u2019s top economies into a new period of uncertainty. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62973\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,519,114,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-kenya-africa","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62976,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62973\/revisions\/62976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}