Murgor, Somane differ on transmission of JPEG, PDF forms
Lawyer Philip Murgor has sought clarification on Form 34As, which were not transmitted in colour or in JPEG format, as required by tender documents
In his submission, Murgor, who is representing Raila Odinga and Martha Karua in the presidential case, highlighted that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) were transmitted in black and white and as a Portable Document Format (PDF)document.
“It has not been clarified how the system for the Kenya Integrated Election Management System (KIEMS) kit was converted to PDF format, as per the tender document.
We have provided evidence; the one presented did not provide that the KIEMs photograph image using a compressor technique that is in compliance with JPEG that unless it was changed quietly fraudulently and with the sole intention of rigging,” he stated.
The IEBC told the Supreme Court today, through counsel Mahat Somane, that the scanner integrated in the KIEMS kit captures photographs of the forms in PDF format, not JPEG, as the petitioners claimed.
“The kit takes an image, embedded in the kit is a scanner so the image is scanned as a PDF. We don’t have any other output,” Somane stated in his submission.
Somane noted that the forms provided by the petitioner Raila Odinga were misleading. He was responding to allegations that forms transmitted as JPEG were changed and then posted as PDF documents to the commission’s public interface after being doctored.
“The Kenya Integrated Election Management System (KIEMS ) kit takes an image, embedded in it (the kit) is a scanner so the image is scanned as a PDF. We don’t have any other output,” he said.
Somane was responding to claims that form transmitted as JPEG were changed and then posted as PDF documents to the Commission’s public interface after being doctored.
