National Super Alliance (Nasa) has been granted access to IEBC servers by the Supreme Court as the NASA case hearing process continues.
NASA was given restricted access to select IEBC data and equipment used to conduct August 8 General Election.
The bench of seven judges said they had granted the petitioner orders of access because understanding how the systems work will help the court come to a fair decision
Justice Isaac Lenaola reading the ruling on behalf of his colleagues said that the orders were limited to only aspects that will not compromise the commission’s electoral management systems
What to access
In a process to be supervised by the Registrar of the Supreme Court Esther Nyaiyaki, here is a list of data, tools and records the judges allowed them to access:
- All IEBC servers at its disposal
- Firewalls without the passwords
- The passwords
- Systems user types
- IEBC ICT redundancy plan
- Certified copies of the penetration tests conducted by the commission prior to, and during the August 8 elections
- Specific GPRS location of Kenya integrated election management systems (KIEMS)
- Certified copies of all KIEMS kits
- Polling stations KIEMS kits allocation,
- Technical agreements signed between the commission and service providers
- Logging in track of KIEMS users
- Logging in track of IEBC servers,
- Original copies of forms 34A, 34B and 34C prepared at the polling station and transmitted to the national tallying centre.
- Reading devices to distinguish the authenticity of all documents they will be offered.