ELECTIONS

MAKE YOUR OWN TALLYING CENTER

Easy way to tally votes in 2017 elections

As campaigns comes to an end the focus of any candidate turns to monitoring Election Day and tallying of final votes. To monitor voting as a candidate you need an agent in every polling station to ensure your intended vote are correctly cast for you. The assistance of illiterate old sick and handicapped lies with your agent. After voting your agent at polling station is the first line votes tallying and reconciliation to ensure you are declared a winner.

IEBC have indicated they will abide by court ruling that votes announced at polling station and announced by returning officer is final. Declared results will not be edited by any IEBC official hence any change can only be done through a court order. However, failure in pointing an error during voting and tallying will result in a very costly exercise to correct it in court.

To ease the voting monitoring any candidate can design as simple and easy tallying process to ensure monitoring and detecting errors of the process.

Requirements

1.      An agent at a polling station

2.      A smart phone per agent (no extra cost agents can use their own)

3.      Data bundle (Ksh. 50: 400 MB on Telkom or 200mb at Airtel)

4.      A computer installed with excel

5.      One chief agent to reconcile votes with IEBC results

6.      Download the excel all per the position

FOR CUSTOMIZED EXCEL SEND MESSAGE TO 0777759276

NB: one agent per polling station can act for candidates of various post like MCA MP Senator and Governor

Steps

1.      Create a WhatsApp group for all your agents

2.      Your chief agent to have names and phone numbers of all agents on his mobile phone

3.      Chief agent to monitor all messages sent by agents’ real time

4.      During votes counting each agent scan the form and send it to the chief agent WhatsApp.

5.      Chief agent validates votes and enter in the excel file downloaded.

NB the excel has formulas which automatically adds the results