Incident-mapping website Uchaguzi, which has been documenting the Kenyan elections, has seen crowd-sourced reports soar 480 per cent since the polls began.
HumanIPO on Monday revealed Kenyans had started to use the incident-mapping service as the polls took place, with 770 events listed on the website – mostly declaring “everything is fine”.
Three days later, the website now documents 3,805 incidents, submitted by members of the public by SMS and Twitter, with the number of negative events now rising – although the majority of negative reports relate to procedural issues rather than security threats.
Only 396 security incidents are listed on the website, mostly pertaining to threats of violence.
However, reports of voting irregularities, registration problems, polling station difficulties, counting irregularities and results announcing have boomed, as Kenyans increasingly become worried about the integrity of the election results amidst claims of rigging and vote doctoring by the parties of the presidential candidates.
