{"id":419033,"date":"2017-09-16T11:08:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T11:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/16\/french-firm\/"},"modified":"2017-09-16T11:08:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T11:08:58","slug":"french-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/16\/french-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"French firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>An audit of the electronic system used to tally votes in Kenya\u2019s cancelled presidential poll showed no manipulation of data, the French biometrics firm that supplied the system told AFP Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition leader Raila Odinga has accused the company, OT-Morpho, of being complicit in alleged rigging of the election, which was declared null and void by the country\u2019s Supreme Court due to \u201cirregularities and illegalities\u201d in the transmission of results.<\/p>\n<p>While the court has yet to deliver its final judgement detailing what went wrong, OT-Morpho said an \u201cin-depth audit\u201d of the system showed the opposition\u2019s claims about hacking to be untrue.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the French government, Odinga accused OT-Morpho of allowing unauthorised access to its servers and manipulating the transmission of results.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s chief operating officer Frederic Beylier told AFP the audit, undertaken with help from external experts from security software companies, had shown the system \u201cin no way suffered manipulation of data, attacks, attempts to penetrate the system or anything of that kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OT-Morpho supplied the 45,000 tablets used to identify voters biometrically and an associated system used to transmit the results of votes counted by electoral officials as well as a photograph of the paper form 34A on which votes were tallied.<\/p>\n<p>Delays in the scanning of these forms \u2014 which OT-Morpho put down to lack of 3G coverage in some parts of Kenya \u2014 were among the problems raised by the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition had also claimed an algorithm was introduced into the system to manipulate the results as they streamed in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe obviously checked if there could have been questionable manipulations by any authorised or unauthorised persons and can confirm there was no manipulation of data that could raise questions,\u201d said Beylier.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it had transmitted all its logs to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, and was willing to participate in another external audit under the IEBC\u2019s authority.<\/p>\n<p>In court, the opposition argued that many forms 34A, once received, were unsigned, lacked the requisite security features or contained irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>However without the full ruling from the court, it is unclear to what extent this influenced the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta was ascribed 54 percent of the vote before being stripped of his victory.<\/p>\n<p>It also remains unclear whether the results could have been manipulated before being entered into the electronic transmissions system, analysts said.<\/p>\n<p>Beylier slammed a campaign of threats and intimidation against the company and its employees, insisting it had carried out its job in \u201ccomplete political neutrality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people are trying to make us the scapegoat of the political situation in Kenya and we don\u2019t intend to play that role,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He referred questions on whether the company\u2019s systems would be used in fresh elections planned for October 17 to the IEBC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An audit of the electronic system used to tally votes in Kenya\u2019s cancelled presidential poll showed no manipulation of data, the French biometrics firm that supplied the system told AFP Friday. 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