An IEBC Kenya Integrated Management System (KIEMS) kit. [Photo|Capital FM]The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), has locked out five presidential candidates, in the Kenya Integrated Management System (KIEMS) kit.CEO Ezra Chiloba, has said the voter identification and transmission gadgets will not be reconfigured to accommodate the five new candidates due to time constraints, given that elections date, October 26, is around the corner.Chiloba, in an Internal Memo said the commission had resolved not to include the presidential candidates, following the revision of results transmission workflow.He said form 34B excel worksheet will be revised to include all the seven candidates as appropriate in the order of names captured in the gazette notice, and that TRS will only transmit election results from forms 34A and 34B from polling stations and constituency tallying centres respectively."The commission has however resolved that the RTS will not be configured to accommodate new presidential candidates except for the original two owing to time constraints," read part of the Memo, citing the gazzette notice, and the two candidates Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga.He also indicated text results would not be taken into account since the system features only two candidates."In other words, the RTS text results which are provisional that would be automatically collated and displayed on the screen or website shall not be availed. The commission is however considering alternative form of display.""In order to increase transparency in the results process, the commission is exploring mechanisms that will facilitate media access to tallying centres across the country and setting up of a result monitoring centres accessible to candidate agents, observers and other accredited stakeholders," he added, Saturday.Chiloba further indicated that IEBC would train Presiding Officers to ensure that the text information against the two candidates is typed as zero in all data fields, and later scan form 34A and transmit to the national tallying centre.

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