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Kenya’s vote counting system has not been hacked amid a tense wait for results of Tuesday’s presidential election, a top poll official has said.
The electoral commission’s CEO Marjan Hussein Marjan said nothing like that had happened, describing the reports as mere misinformation.
Social media has been awash with allegations that fake results have been uploaded as the count is verified in a poll that show the two leading candidates – Raila Odinga and William Ruto – are neck and neck. Earlier electoral head Wafula Chebukati emphasised there was no need to panic when seeing differences in tallying numbers from various media groups as they would look similar in the end. END