Smartmatic International, the company that has been tasked with providing IT services to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has said that the Azimio la Umoja coalition can only be partially allowed to access its servers.
Smartmatic said that IEBC should only provide Azimio with all collected data related to the Results and Transmission System and all Results Transmission System logs. It said that this would be sufficient to extensively audit the Results Transmission System and verify that it worked properly.
the company clarified that such images contain software owned and copyrighted by Smartmatic and is thus IP protected.
“Providing full access would infringe our intellectual property rights,” Smrtmatic said in a letter.
“Providing third parties access to our source code, and security features including transmission certificates and encrypted keys would render the system insecure – as it is today – for any future use in Kenya or anywhere else in the world. In addition to violating our IP rights, this would also jeopardize elections in other countries that are using or have used our systems.”
The firm added that the IEBC could provide supervised and managed access to the Results Transmission System from Anniversary Towers.
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“This additional evidence will demonstrate the accuracy of the results. All political parties and certified NGO election observers had access to those tallies and were able to audit the results independently. Even citizens all over the world had full access to these tally reports and were able to add the results,” it said.