Head of Carter Center observer mission to Kenya's August 2017 elections former US Secretary of State John Kerry. [Photo|the-star]The US-based Carter Center, has strongly defended itself after the Supreme Court of Kenya, annulled the August 8 presidential election that saw Uhuru Kenyatta declared winner.The judges cited irregularities in the election, after National Super Alliance (Nasa) leader Raila Odinga filed the petition, saying the exercise was questionable.Carter Centre, led by former US Secretary of State John Kerry was among the international observers in the election, who gave the exercise a clean bill of health, saying it was free and fair.However, the institution which has been under attack and criticism from various leaders following the Supreme Court ruling, defended itself, saying its observers "publicly discussed concerns about the transmission of results."Carter Center told BBC that the court suggested that the problem with the presidential election result, was in the manner in which they were transmitted from polling stations to the national tallying centre rather than in the voting and counting at the polling station.According to them the vote itself went well but the problems came later.The European Union (EU) Observer Mission which was among the observers, also defended its poll analysis, with the Head of the Mission Marietje Schaake, telling BBC that they had flagged up issues with the count."We looked at the campaign and the days afterwards. As the tallying was going on and forms needed to be uploaded, there were some challenges and those challenges are being tackled in Court," she said.On the other hand, Commonwealth observer mission defended itself saying their report only judged the poll, not the counting of votes or transmission of the results.

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