IT gurus sabotage MCP parallel tally system, suspect ‘rigging technology’

June 23, 2020 Paul Chamdimba Nkhoma -Nyasa Times 41 Comments

As the  court-ordered fresh presidential election is underway, IT experts have exposed and compromised a smart monitor Android application which has been re-programmed to deliver elections results in six hours from the close of voting at parallel vote tallying (PVT) centre for the opposition coalition Tonse.

Technical hitches at parallel voter tally centre

The IT gurus have revealed passwords for the android application system along with the registered phone numbers whose owners were to do the reporting. This exposure is part of a digital warfare.

However, elaborate technology system exposed was feared that it was meant to facilitate a “rigging” plan for Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM Party.

“The plan was to get election results from across the country in six hours time in order to start pressing Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to announce elections results with their torchbearer Lazarus Chakwera as the winner,” said one of the IT gurus.

“Concentration of announcement was planned to start with areas where Chakwera has a stronghold. This plan has now collapsed given the heavy compromise MCP has suffered.”

The Tonse Allaince is now panicking and failing to understand as to how the passwords, the phone numbers and the application leaked.

The exposed network involves an information feeder into what is called “the War Room” where hacking of the MEC system would be carried out.

The technicians who bursted the ill-intended technology have also warned Tonse Alliance have a backup system which will also be exposed.

The opposition has  been claiming in that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) wants to rig  the elections.

MCP secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka Mkaka and UTM Party director of communications Joseph Chidanti Malunga confirmed that the alliance has mounted a parallel voter tally centre to enhance transparency and credibility of election results.

Counting of ballot papers will start immediately after polling closes on Tuesday. Results would be transmitted from polling centres to District  tally centres enroute to the National Tally Centre at College of Medicine Sports Complex in Blantyre.

Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Chifundo Kachale appealed against pressuring MEC to release results, saying the commission has eight days to announce.

He said some presiding officers in parts of Lilongwe Rural yesterday turned down the job at the last minute, but have since been replaced by others who were on stand-by.

The winning presidential candidate and running mate will become the country’s President and Vice-President.

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41 replies on “IT gurus sabotage MCP parallel tally system, suspect ‘rigging technology’”

  1. thank you misguided Tonse Alliance over zelious ones …You have set a trend of one of the most irregularity the Elections can beNullified again .If what those judges and the electrol law defines as irregularity …
    😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

  2. IT Gurus without names are you a DPP cadet trying to please your masters please give us credible stories

  3. There is nothing wrong in setting up a parallel tally centre. I have also set up mine and I’m recording all results as they are being reported by the media.
    This provides a benchmark for gauging the authenticity of what MEC will eventually announce

  4. We are seeing APM getting zero in many polling Centres in Central Region . This is so because DPP monitors were chased away in such polling Centres so much so that even DPP monitors did not vote. And the sign sheet is signed only by MCP monitors. How credible are Results coming from such Centres? Is this the credible election you were talking about?

    1. The Police are saying DPP complaints are minor so why are you creating a mountain from nowhere. Why send ex soldiers from Mwanza and other Districts to Central Region Districts. Honorable thing to do is to accept defeat as Dr Banda and JB did.Makani sakuthandizani.

  6. MCP will release a new album tomorrow morning titled “ATIBERA VOLUME 7” Featuring is Zeze Saulosi Chilima and will be distributed in all TONSE alliance outlets. Pre-release orders are welcome. Place your order now as limited copies will be available…

  8. Mukagulidwa musamaiwale kuti chenje akugawiranicho chimatha ngati mame. Kukacha muwafuna a Tonse alliancewo. Akuba ndiomwe akugulaniwo💪🏿✊🏾🇲🇼🇲🇼🇲🇼 Kondani dziko lanu. Osati ndalama🙏🏿🙏🏿

    1. After being caught brining ex soldiers DPP has existed pseudo journalists to publish a barrage of such silly articles. I wonder what they hope to achieve. Facts are facts and these daft draft articles wont change anything

  10. Ma computer amenewa ndi oonkhesela ma figure ya data from the tally centres ma phone wo ngama communication osati izi mwalemba APA cadet wabangula mokweza kulilila pitala nthawi yamuthera APA akulongeza

  11. Muli pa chi ntchito chabodza. Panopa mukumva pain…Ndipo simunati…ife sitikugona guarding our votes…

  12. This story is just like one reporting for Nkhani za MaBoma. Too much amateurish

  13. Ndi yekhayo amene akudziwa kuti sangakhoze , amene amaonera mayeso
    Tonse alliance team singavutike ndi za chinyengo zanuzo.
    UTMCP is winning this election , mufune kaya musafune
    Dpp ikutha lero

  14. What a load of crap. Tonse alliance doesnt need to rig the election, it is a foregone conclusion that they will win. It is mathematically and reasonably impossible for DPP to win.

  15. This article is a clear lie anyway just lie as much as u can no problem the real fact will come by midnight or tomorrow morning

  17. Cadets! we know you are trying so hard but unfortunately you can go through. Try another decade

  18. Kodi iwe Chandimba, bwanji osalembako zomwe zachitika ky Nkhotakota chifukwa imeneyitu ndiye nkhani. Zinkangotha zisankho Grezedler Jeffrey akukalowa. Kachale sakufuna zautsirutu, nokha mukumasiyanitsa ndi mayi aja. Uyu ndi Jajidi, analowetsa Kasambala ndi ameneyu.

  22. Mr Ishmael Alie,
    Lying is not good. And lying while naked is even horrendous. GJ has never spent a night in the cooler as you are portraying. It is your fellow thugs who wanted to loot at GJ’s lodge, and the police went there to protect life and property.
    May you wait for the final whistle because if you keep on telling yourself your alliance has won, then it will be difficult to come to terms in the event that you have lost. I for one did not vote for your so-called Tonse alliance and am not alone.
    LINDA MADZI APITE

  23. Winning team will never rig, UTMCP is a winning team. Only blue camp(UDFDPP) are trying several ways for rigging election, because they were born and grown up by rigging. Their SECRETARY GENERAL, JEFF. Spent last night in police cell at her home district Nkhotakota, accused in connection of rigging election!!!

  24. Mukazi mzako mpachulu
    Kuyambila lero
    zilikoliko
    Koma zokhetsa mwazi tisiye kudya

  26. Every body knows MCP can not win without rigging. MCP has no region which it can call stronghold.DPP has the South, UDF has the East. Muslims who have pledged support to Muntharika has also strongholds in Centre. Therefore without rigging MCP CAN NOT WIN.

    2. Awa a phwisa mfundo, Za chipwmbedzo zitayeni . Osagawa dziko NDI zipembedzo mtundu kochokera and more over chiwelengelo cha asilamu sichingawinitse mtundu wa alomwe. We need a government for all malawi.

  27. Suleman, wakuthetsani zeru, you are just suspecting yourself! you thought you will do the same as you did last time, you are trying to build your pillar to refuse the change that is on its way coming to Malawi!

  28. This is rubbish, MEC Chair has made it clear that all district results will be brought physically to the main tally centre in BT and that MEC will not be pressured to announce the results before the legal 8 days period. Tonse Alliance is not as stupid as the writer thinks.

  29. Muchedwa nazo izi ingopitani mukavotepo apa manthaaaa
    MCP ikuwina ndikale whether you like it or not ife tachonga kale poyambilira basi

  30. ma cadet nde mukumva kuwawatu….mkwiyo okha okha ukumveka muzolemba zanuzo….change has come basi

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