(iii)
How should the Court treat rejected/spoilt votes in
respect to votes cast in terms of Article 138(4) of the
Constitution?
(iv)
What is the proper constitutional and legal threshold
for invalidating a presidential election under Article 140
of the Constitution?
(v)
What remedies can the Court grant in determining a
presidential election petition under Article 140 of the
Constitution?
[102] On the first issue, the Attorney-General submitted that the
determination of the Presidential election dispute should be made within
the context of Articles 81 and 86 of the Constitution which sets out both the
qualitative and quantitative principles applicable to their conduct, where
the qualitative context under Articles 81(e) is as good as the process leading
to those results, while quantitatively, the Court is called upon to deal with
numbers and figures regarding the threshold for declaration of Presidential
results envisaged under Article 138(4) of the Constitution.
[103] Citing the scholarly text of Hon Justice (Prof) Otieno-Odek29 of the
Court of Appeal, he submitted that the qualitative requirements appraise
the entire electoral process prior to and during voting, evaluating whether
the environment was free and fair within the meaning of Article 81 (e). He
thus urged that substantial non- compliance with this requirement renders
the entire electoral results void. For that proposition, he cited the case of
Paper by Hon. Hon Justice (Prof) Otieno-Odek titled, Election Technology Law and the Concept of
“Did the Irregularity affect the Results of the Elections?”
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