“Smartmatic International, the company procured by IEBC to provide technology for the August 9th General Election, has declined the order to allow Raila Odinga’s team full access to their servers as ordered by the Supreme Court,” Citizen Digital reports in Kenya.

“During a pre-trial conference on Tuesday, the Supreme Court ordered the electoral body to, among other things, grant the petitioners access to any server used to capture images of Forms 34C.

“In a letter on Thursday, Smartmatic’s Managing Director F. Gunnick noted that providing full access to the servers would be an infringement on their property rights,” according to the report.

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Smartmatic International, the company procured by IEBC to provide technology for the August 9th General Election

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1. Smartmatic-declines-to-give-raila-full-access-to-iebc-servers
2. IEBC now grants Raila access to all its servers

1. Why won’t Smartmatic follow a court order to permit independent access to its servers?

2. What does Smartmatic continue to hide in client countries worldwide?

3. What kind of pattern can we detect across Latin America, the Philippines, Europe, Africa, and the United States?