French Firm OT-Morpho has said it is ready to deliver a credible election on Thursday.
It said an external audit shows its systems were secure during the August 8 poll, contrary to Opposition allegations.
“The final report from this external IT leader proves…no evidence of errors has been identified and OT-Morpho RTS system used for the August 8 election was not compromised,” the firm said in a statement on Tuesday.
The firm said it hired a Top 3 IT company worldwide to conduct an external audit. It had previously conducted two internal audits and one more by an independent expert.
The report has been shared by the IEBC, which said it would be difficult to guarantee a credible election.
The company asked for the election to be conducted on October 31 to ensure the roll-out of the full RTS system but Thursday’s date was upheld.
“The High Court decision of October 11, adding other presidential candidates…had a very significant impact and would have required OT-Morpho to generate a new software for the KIEMS kits so as to include the list of new candidates as well as update the 45,000 KIEMS kits,” it said.
OT-Morpho said only part of the capabilities of the RTS system, which is the transmission of pictures of forms 34A and 34B instead of text results, will be technically usable at this time.
