Four IEBC commissioners on Tuesday caused a buzz on social media after they explained why they denounced the presidential results declared by chairman Wafula Chebukati on Monday.
The four listed four reasons that led to their drastic action moments before the declaration of presidential election results at the Bomas of Kenya.
Vice chairperson Juliana Cherera and commissioners Irene Masit, Justus Nyangaya and Francis Wanderi termed the results as opaque.
Among the reasons they opined was that the summation of the percentage of votes awarded to the four presidential candidates exceeded 100 per cent.
In the results, President-elect William Ruto got 7,176,141 votes representing 50.49 per cent of the final vote while Raila Odinga got 6,942,930 translating to 48.85 per cent.
George Wajackoya got 61,969 votes (o.44 per cent of the vote) while David Waihiga got 31,987 (0.27 per cent).
"This summation gives us a total of 100.01 per cent. This translates to approximately 142,000 votes which will make a significant difference in the final results," the commissioners said in a statement read by Cherera at Serena Hotel, Nairobi.
The Star fact-checker has however established that the calculation by the four which led to the conclusion that 0.01 represents 142,000 is wrong.
Mathematically, 10 per cent of 14.2 million is 1,420,000.
One per cent of the same figure translates to 142,000.
Further, 0.01 per cent of 14.2 million, which the four commissioners said is 142,000, amounts to 1,420.
It, therefore, goes to show that the four commissioners got their calculations wrong by a very huge margin of error.
