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NASA has given IEBC three demands which they say must be adhered to or the coalition will boycott the August polls. 

This comes after the electoral body appealed a court ruling barring it to alter results announced at the constituency level. The Biometric/ Electronic Voter Identification kits are another thorny issue that they want to be sorted out.

“IEBC is admitting that they have been changing constituency results and are appealing the decision in order to continue changing results once announced at the constituencies. The IEBC is looking to the courts to allow it to change election results as declared at polling station and constituencies. Who stands to benefit from this appeal?

We, therefore, demand that the Commission respects the decision of the High Court and withdraw the appeal forthwith.

We now understand the matter of constituency returning officers where the IEBC has been arbitrarily deploying and sending returning officers to constituencies without any known criteria or basis. Constituency Returning officers are key in overseeing the conduct of presidential elections and declaration of results.

As NASA we demand that the Commission adopts an open and transparent process of deploying constituency returning officers. The process should involve open balloting where constituency coordinators are randomly picked and their constituencies selected,” reads a section of the statement.

“Finally, we would also like to bring to IEBC attention that even though the importation of Biometric/ Electronic Voter Identification kits was done without the same being subjected to pre-export verification, we now demand that:

1. That These EVID kits be subjected to public inspection to confirm that they are suitable for the intended purpose.2. That these EVID kits have to be used in the forthcoming voter verification exercise.3. That these EVID kits be deployed and distributed to all polling stations for purposes of supplementing the voter verification exercise. Thank you,” read part of the statement.