JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
1. On 8th August 2017, the people of Starehe Constituency in Nairobi County held election for the position of member of the National Assembly. The 3rd respondent (Njagua Charles Kanyi) was declared the winner, having garnered 61,266 votes against the appellant’s (Ndwiga Steve Mbogo) 38,292votes. Dissatisfied with the declared results, the appellant filed an election petition challenging the results. Numerous grounds were urged in support of the petition. These included lack of official IEBC stamp on some statutory forms; lack of signatures of presiding and or deputy presiding officers electoral forms; lack of signature of agents; errors in tallying of votes; variances in result declaration forms 35A and 35B; violence in the conduct of the election; bribery and treating; vote stuffing; denial of entry into polling stations and failure to conduct the elections in accordance with the principles laid down in the Constitution, the Elections Act and Regulations thereund…