Scrutiny and recounting of votes in the Homa Bay governor's election petition has started.
Lawyers representing Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga and former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero were keen on how entries of the information contained in the Kiems kits were being made.
Lawyers Fredrick Orego is representing Wanga and Okwe Achiando is representing Kidero.
The outcome of the exercise will form part of what Justice Roselyn Aburili will use to determine the case.
The court had provided documents containing seven columns where entries would be made during the scrutiny and recount of votes.
The columns include biometric identification, document search with biometric and document search without biometric.
Others include an alphanumeric search with biometrics, alphanumeric search without biometrics and total number of voters who turned up to vote.
The scrutiny and recount exercise is being presided over by Homa Bay deputy registrar Joy Wesonga.
The exercise involves the number of votes for each candidate, the number of voters identified biometrically and the number of people who were authorised to vote by presiding officers without biometric identification. Others are rejected and spoilt votes.
The scrutiny and recount is expected to take five days.
Votes from 195 selected polling stations across eight constituencies will be scrutinised and recounted.
On Wednesday, they started with Kamsama, Rinya, Nyamasare among other polling stations in Suba North constituency.
They were verifying data by physically counting votes and comparing them with entries which were made in forms 37A as well as information about voters in the SD card contained in the Kiems kits.
At Kamsama polling station, Form 37A could not be traced as it was not attached to the ballot box nor put inside it. Some 348 counterfoils were used and were put in the ballot box.
After the recount, Kidero got 97 votes while Wanga got 237. UDA candidate Mark Rabudi got two votes, totalling 336 votes. Form 37A was not available to give comparison.
Wesonga said she would write a report on what they observed.
At Rinya Primary School, there were no markings on envelopes to indicate what was contained in them. Wesonga informed the parties that the ballot box from the station had no counterfoil.
At the station, Kidero got 133 votes against Wanga’s 97 when the materials were counted. In the form 37A, Kidero got 133 votes, while Wanga got 96 with indication that 230 people cast ballots.
Peter Samba and Maurine Odek represented the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.
