People queue outside a polling station to cast their vote. [Photo/Daily Nation]The NASA coalition presidential candidate Raila Odinga has so far contested the credibility of the provisional results from the IEB portal, terming them in accurate.
However, in the complaint made by Odinga one word stood out leading to curiosity from many Kenyans, many are asking themselves what is form 34A and 34B and why is NASA insisting that IEBC must provide it.
Form 34A is the first form used to tabulate results of the presidential election. It is filled by the Presiding Officer after the counting of votesat the polling station.
Sample form 34A.
It contains details of the votes garnered by each candidate and then details the total number of registered voters inthat station, the rejected votes, the objected ones, the disputed and the valid ones.
The candidate or their agents are then required to sign and ratify that the contents of that form are correct.
Section 39 of the Elections Act provides that for a presidential election, the IEBC “shall electronically transmit, in the prescribed form the tabulated results of an election for the President from a polling station to the constituency tallying center and to the national tallying center.