The hi-tech system was introduced with one main purpose - to eliminate the possibility of vote-rigging, and give the Kenyan electorate faith in the count - but our correspondent says the failure could endup having the opposite effect.
Outspoken analyst and fund manager Tom Brown, of New York-based Second Curve Capital, wrote in a letter to Citigroup's board last week that "the growth strategy lately being articulated by management will endin costly failure, " and he repeated his call for a break-up of the company.