presidential election were declared on the basis of the aggregate of Forms 34B which reflected the will of the people. [92] As regards the contention by the petitioners on lack of security features on the statutory forms, it was IEBC’s submission that all Forms 34A and 34B issued to presiding and returning officers had serial numbers, barcodes and the IEBC watermarks. In addition that Forms 34A were carbonated to ensure that only one Form was filled by the presiding officer to generate 6 copies. These security features were meant to help authenticate the results at the polling centres before transmission. [93] In her affidavit, Ms. Immaculate Kassait added that IEBC developed standards for its electoral materials prior to their procurement. The standards included specific security features for each ballot paper and statutory form in order to prevent duplication, misuse, piracy, fraud, counterfeiting and to improve controls. She explained that ALL the ballot papers and statutory forms used in the 8th August 2017 election contained certain and specific security features. These features included: guilloche patterns against which all background colours on the declaration forms had been printed, anti-copy patterns, watermarks, micro text, tapered serialization, invisible UV printing, polling station data personalization, self-carbonating element and barcodes. In addition, each ballot paper included different colour coding of the background. [94] Mr. Muite SC submitting on behalf of IEBC, urged that in any case, though there was no legal requirement for the Forms to have security features and IEBC only introduced them suo motu out of abundant caution. That therefore no breach of any law was committed where the Presidential  Petition  No.  1  of  2017                                                                                                                                                                                                            37  |  P a g e