Concourt allows MEC’s Chisi to do own simulation to counter argue Suleman

November 12, 2019 Wongani Chiuta - Nyasa Times 40 Comments

The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) hearing  presidential elections nullification petition  has allowed the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) IT director Muhabi Chisi to make a presentation in the court his own simulation to counter argue Malawi Congress Party (MCP) hired IT expert Daudi Suleman, rejecting an application by UTM and MCP to block Chisi simulation.

Chisi: Court rules that  his simulation should not be for the purpose of traversing evidence presented by Suleman

Lead judge Healey Potani however said the simulation should not be for the purpose of traversing evidence presented by MCP’s sixth witness Daudi Suleman through his simulation.

This means MEC director of Information Communication Technology (ICT) Muhabi Chisi will be allowed to simulate and demonstrate to the court technical evidence as to what transpired during the May 21 polls.

Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale applied to the court to allow Chisi simulate the data after Daudi illustrated in the court how he believes MEC results management system was hijacked and mismanaged.

But judge Potani said in the ruling that the court has repeatedly called on parties to proceed with some steps which are in the interest of justice unless it will prejudice the case.

Potani pointed out that in Chisi doing his own simulation “there is no such prejudice.”

Said Potani:”The court ultimately believes that both parties should have the opportunity to demonstrate using the very system that is in doubt. As such, in the spirit of putting both parties on an equal footing, the witness should be allowed to demonstrate his evidence, just like Mr. Daudi Suleman,” said Potani.

He added: “Therefore in the spirit of putting both parties in the equal footing, the court will allow Mr Chisi to simulate his evidence.”

However, the court ruling said the simulation will not be for the purposes traversing Suleman’s evidence.

The court also ruled that Chisi should be confined within  his sworn statement.

“It is accordingly ordered and let the parties be guided,” Potani said in the ruling.

In his simulation, Suleman demonstrated how MEC’s computerised election result management system (RMS) was allegedly breached by a ‘ghost’ operator to change the results of the presidential elections in favour of incumbent Peter Mutharika.

Suleman further provided evidence to back a theory that the results were not credible.

Using graphical evidence, Suleman demonstrated to the court first how the computer system left trailing evidence that information which had earlier been uploaded in the system was later deleted by the hacker or group of hackers.

The witness also demonstrated how the election results were entered and transmitted in the MEC computerised system by the hacker within milliseconds and further demonstrated how this was impossible using a human effort.

Suleman further provided other digital evidence that the results were not a reflection of the tallied votes from the various polling centres in the country, including a detailed graphic illustration of how data analysis of the results indicates that only results from some 2 002 polling centres were entered in the election system instead all the 5 002 polling centres in the country.

If results from all the polling centres were entered in the RMS, Suleman demonstrated the difference in digital footprints the MEC database could have registered, saying at a certain point in elections, the hacker penetrated the election system, altered the results and deleted certain information.

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40 replies on “Concourt allows MEC’s Chisi to do own simulation to counter argue Suleman”

  2. Koma AChisi alipavuto mumaziyambiranji???*kaphare ,APM,janet ansa,kuli iwoko akunva ngt mene tinkavera ife akuulutsa zotsatira muja…Pena umanva ngt nseru,pena ngt malungo,pena ngt uli nd mimba,nthaw zina appetite ikuchokereso*….

    Aziona 😅😅😅

  5. APM moto Kut buuuu ,mukuwona ngati ndindani angapeleke dziko manja mwa nyau za Ku Lilongwe ndindani?MCP kadzingokozekekerani 2024 mulandu ukutherani ndalama.

  7. Proverbs 18:17 “In a lawsuit, the first to speak seems right, until someone comes forward and cross-exams.”

  8. The matter of the fact is that elections were not ligit. That means whoever won he did so through backdoor. Therefore Dpp were behind manipulation if not then why did the ghost chose peter to win?judges do not be fooled here.

  10. Where have you seen IT gurus in Government run institutions? Just wait and see how Chisi will do…God bless Malawi and let the truth prevail and shame the hands that are dishing out money to cover the truth..

  11. DOES MALAWI HAVE 2 MEC CENTERS? ONE FOR THE OPPOSITION.BE CAREFUL YOU JUDGES ,NEXT TIME IT WILL BE YOUR TURN TO RUN ELECTIONS.THE DUTY OF M’MALAWI OPPOSITION IS TO. COUNTER ATTACK THAT’S THE FACT.THEY USE THE BEST CROOCS WHO ARE ABLE TO CREATE FECK STORIES AND FECK MECHANISM.THEY WERE TRYING TO HACK MEC SYSTEM.PIN THEM OTHERWISE MEC WILL NOT BE RESPECTED.

  12. I just hope Chisi is as good a Suleman. The truth is that evil is difficult to cover up? We hope he is going to reveal the name of the ghost who he allowed to approve results in stead of Commissioners. We will be listening carefully. If Chisi is trying to defend MEC, he should reveal the name of the ghost. He should also explain the reasons why he allowed people to access the MEC system – a public property using gmail mail account.

    God help us

    1. Nanunso simunamve kuti approvals were done manually contrally to what Suleman made you to believe that they were approved in the computer

      1. Mumangomvera zilizonse kodi inu ? Manual apporoval for a computer system ? What’s the point of the computer system if it doesn’t log errors / log approvals / keep track of documentation …. Have you done ANY school ? If yes, that school should be ashamed.

        1. Ndi zimene ndimadabwa ine, kuti anthu koma akumvetsa the system that was used in the election? Some of these defense statements sound more like party talking points rather than reactions resulting from an informed following of the court case.

      2. Awa a last witness sadziwa kuti sadziwa. The suleman who received a standing ovation now being reduced to an idiot. KKKKKKK. Amasewera ndi anthu omwa ink.

  13. Ziliko ku nyasa. Analikuti iwowa a kuti aonetse dziko mene anamkhazikila tippex pitala pa madando 147

  17. After this Suleman will either be declared a hero or a villain. I fear the latter is likely. IT experts will tell you that his presentation had so many loopholes that nominal eyes could not see. Thats why lawyers for MCP and UTM were quick to prevent MEC’s IT Expert simulation. Anyways let the wisest thing be done.

    1. Are you too an IT expert? Kkkkkkkkk on Malawi people like the word “expert” what expert?? Why can’t you just say IT Technician? But expert eeee specialist in Malawi? Really?

    3. 1. Technically you can login on different computers using same credentials the same way you can share your email password and both access the email server simultaneously

      2. It is possible to enter results in milliseconds using a script if there are issues with entering individual results or in the interest of time. These systems were not physically at the same place as such they depended on connectivitg which might have been a challenge hence opting for batch system. The big question that the petitioners should have asked was why this was done. This has nothing with hacking.

      3. The issue of hacking the witness has not provided any technical evidence. The MEC system has a network which each individual computed system is identified by a unique IP address. If the hacking happened internally it should indicate which IP aadresss and machine MAC address and the culprit can be easily be identified similarly if the hacker was from outside he can also be identified by an IP address.

      4. The issues of ghost account/user this is not well clarified. If I was the witness I should have identified the system rights given to this ghost user as claimed and what he did. There is always a root account in any system and this becomes a super user with all system rights and may be this could be a super user.

      5. I don’t understand if there was a separate manual tabulation that should be used to compare with system results to check if there is a variance that will validate the irregularities and prove that it impacted the outcome of the election.

      6. It is claimed that there were system breaches that were against best IT international standards. Very true but unfortunately they are not ligally binding as such they may not add any value to the case.

      7. Database deleted. This is very easy. The witness should have asked for a backup database. As this was a critical system, it must have a backup for continuity in case of any disaster offsite. People managed to manipulate the IFMIS in a local server here but could not do the same in their offsite server and culprits were caught by referring to the offsite server.

      The court ruling to allow MEC to do their simulation was obvious in the interest of natural justice, to alow the other side to also be given equal apportunity.

      I personally do not think unless proved otherwise that dwelling on the MEC system would prove anything unless it was defined in the electoral laws. It was there for aggregation, electronic transmission (which can be xrosscheked with signed manual documents) and dashboard and not necessarily used to determine the outcome of the final result.

      1. Like this. Hebrew wisdom says ” In a lawsuit, the first to speak seems right, until someone comes forward and cross-examines” Proverbs 18:17. Your narrative is way clear to open the minds of an average person to see the flaws in Suleman’s theories. Yet there is more. Point is the opposition need to manage their expectations. Suleman’s testimony could be their final blow once proven otherwise and may eclipse the marginal strides they might have made from the previous testimonies if there is any. Anyways I remain a patriot.

      2. Ulemu wanu Mr Guarator. This is excellent explanation,,, osakondera koma kuunikira anthu amene amangowombera m’manja zina zilizonse.

      3. Trying to complicate Nothing .Each Computer has an IP address .You can log in Any Computer If you have a User ID.Any User ID has Rights .Any User leaves Behind Audit Trail .Users are given ID s to Identify who has done what in the System.Every User ID has an ID which Must Never Be shared.You Can Hack into any System …..If it has loopholes (expert – Russians are very Good at this) Britain and America are Now Realising this when it Comes to Elections.Hope Mr Muhabi will tell Us the Users who approved the Results…Not Mr Super User…

      4. I see that we have alot of IT experts in here….as indicated in one of the comments, am waiting for the re examination SIMPLE

      5. Regarding Guarantor’s point # 6, Suleman actually read out in court specific Malawi regulations regarding Govt IT systems (specifically on the use of private e-mail accounts). Now if Guarantor is lying about this point, how can we trust his assertions on the other points? If it would indeed be so easy to explain away Suleman’s claims why were MEC lawyers so adamant that Suleman should not carry out his simulation? Why haven’t the cross examinations of both MEC and Mutharika lawyers been able to quash Suleman’s main assertions up to now?

    4. You are a patriot ! Patriot of what ? DPP? No wonder you sound that way! Suleman was simply making a technical statement . A statement concerning what actually happened in the MEC black box (MEC result management system -RMS). As far a I am concerned Suleman not only capacitated the Judges, MEC officer but also the petitioners, including all the lawyers. Listeners without computer knowledge also learnt something. I personally, think he is better that you. Unless you are an IT expert and I saw what you do.

      1. Hahaha you invested a lot in the last witness. Please dont. you shall have a huge burden for nothing. I would advise you to refrain from getting emotionally attached to politics. I am just but an objective patriot. I am from the Northern part of Malawi and NB to be specific. The MP in my area is UTM and that tells you the inclination of my people. But I managed to get past that emotional attachment when I saw the folly of politics. Search deeper on who wanted to rig elections using ICT and failed and today is in court seeking justice against DPP.

    1. Nothing will come out from him! He is not lCT he just want to play games with MEC end of it he want to tell Mec that! I step in for my part and l tryed make everything possible sake of us to come out clean for the dirty job we did but didn’t work. Then am sorry. Cadet is always fool he doesn’t know tricks

    2. Awuze kut avetse chisi mbwalo koma MCP imamudziwa bwino bwino APM olo amangovera pa radio or news papers ,chakwera ndi mwana wako chilima samala.

      1. Koma how did Suleman manage to fool the whole camp of MCP? Mkaladiyu wangowaomba basi? Crumbling like popcorn?

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