Kenyan Election Tensions Rise as Opposition Claims Fraud
Mr. Odinga described the 2017 election a "fraud." The hackers, he told reporters earlier this week, had used the credentials
of an election official who was killed days before the vote to gain access to the servers and then doctor the results.
10, 2017
NAIROBI, Kenya — Tensions over Kenya’s presidential election built on Thursday after the opposition leader accused election officials of falsifying the results
and handing victory to President Uhuru Kenyatta, the incumbent.
The new claims by the opposition came a day after Mr. Odinga said
that election commission servers had been hacked to award Mr. Kenyatta a 10-point lead.
Raila Odinga, leader of the National Super Alliance, an opposition umbrella group, appeared unwilling to accept defeat, saying his party had received
information from "confidential sources" within the electoral commission with data showing Mr. Odinga had won by about 300,000 votes.
There has been no evidence so far that votes have been tampered with at polling stations or
that the results contradict reports from party agents present during the counting of ballots, said John Kerry, the former United States secretary of state and an election observer for the Carter Center.
"They cannot come from a candidate or party." International observers have widely applauded the electoral commission’s conduct, and note
that the official results are based on paper ballots tallied and verified at polling stations, not those transmitted electronically.
