(i) Whether the 2017 Presidential Election was conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Constitution and the written law relating to elections [214] In paragraphs 12 and 13 of the petition, the petitioners allege that in the conduct of the presidential election, IEBC became “a law and institution unto itself’ and so flagrantly flouted the Constitution and the written election law on elections that in the end it completely subverted the will of the electorate. In particular, the petitioners urge that the 1st respondent violated the constitutional principles set out in Articles 81 and 86 by failing to ensure that the conduct of the elections was simple, accurate, transparent, verifiable, secure and accountable. [215] In support of their case, the petitioners filed several affidavits setting out what, in their view, were egregious irregularities and illegalities, which, taken together, establish an impregnable case on both limbs of the section to wit: non-compliance with constitutional principles and the written law on election, as well as commission of irregularities which affected the results of the elections. We shall address other illegalities and irregularities later but for now we shall limit ourselves to the question of transmission of results and transmission of unverified results. [216] The petitioners’   major complaint in this matter relates to the transmission of the election results. Ole Kina, Godfrey Osotsi and Olga Karani, who were NASA’s agents at the National Tallying Centre at Bomas of Kenya, deposed that hardly 10 minutes after polling closed at 5.00 pm on 8th August, 2017, the presidential results started streaming in and were Presidential  Petition  No.  1  of  2017                                                                                                                                                                                                            89  |  P a g e