were so confused- and so confusing- that many Kenyans lost whatever confidence they might have had in the results as announced. While integrity is necessary at all stages in the electoral process, nowhere is it more important than in counting and tallying” [Emphasis added.] [229] Among the significant recommendations the Kriegler Commission made related to the use of technology in the electoral process. It recommended that: “… without delay [the Electoral Commission of Kenya] ECK starts … [developing] an integrated and secure tallying and data transmission system, which would allow computerized data entry and tallying at constituencies, secure simultaneous transmission (of individual polling station level data) to the national tallying centre, and the integration of this resultshandling system in a progressive election result announcement system.”112 [230] Pursuant to those recommendations, the process of integrating technology into the conduct of elections was undertaken starting with the use of Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) equipment to register voters on a pilot basis in the run up to the 2010 referendum. In the 2013 elections technology was applied for registration of voters, voter identification and results transmission. However, that did not work very well in the 2013 general election and it was one of the key issues that was raised in the 2013 presidential petition before this Court. Consequently, in 2016 the Joint Parliamentary Select Committee on matters relating to the bi-partisan Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC) was formed, 112 Kriegler Report, page 138. Presidential  Petition  No.  1  of  2017                                                                                                                                                                                                            96  |  P a g e