Supreme Court judges in a previous sitting. Some of these judges, though, have since exited the bench and new ones taken over. [Photo: diasporadical.wordpress.com]The accuracy of forms used to process results of the presidential election will form the core of debate at the Supreme Court when the hearing of Raila Odinga’s petition against the election of President Uhuru Kenyatta kicks off.And as the court embarks on the second phase of the battle over the presidential election results Saturday evening, the question whether the anomalies cited in the data forms will be enough to alter the vote outcome will be keenly followed, Saturday Nation reports.The third issue will be whether there was abuse of power by President Uhuru Kenyatta before, during and after August 8 voting which may have altered the results in his favour.The last issue will be whether the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) should hand over for scrutiny the 40,883 kits used to identify voters and transmit the results as well as its servers and logs.The first phase of the petition ended Friday evening with the submission by each of the three parties, Nasa flag bearer Raila Odinga, President Kenyatta and the IEBC, of their written submissions, their arguments in writing.The second phase begins at 7pm Saturday (tonight) at the pre-trial conference. Here, the judges will set out what the issues they are to determine are, who else can join the case and what the IEBC is to do with election materials.
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