Kenya: Tensions spike as opposition claims election results manipulated in 'hacking attack'

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A bitterly divisive presidential election in Kenya descended into chaos on Wednesday after the opposition leader claimed that a government-sanctioned hacking attack had subverted the results to rob him of victory.

Police shot dead three protesters as violent clashes in the capital and elsewhere raised fears that the country could again be pitched into electoral violence after Raila Odinga accused Uhuru Kenyatta, the president, of resorting to “massive” fraud to secure re-election.

Mr Kenyatta, seeking a second and final five-year term, was on course for a convincing victory.

With nearly all the votes tallied, the president had secured 54.3 per cent of the vote against Mr Odinga’s 44.8, according to provisional results released by the electoral commission - a much wider margin of victory than opinion polls had suggested.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/09/tensions-spike-kenya-opposition-claims-election-results-manipulated/

[Not Ruth]

1. They do not use paper ballots?