Chris Msando is the Kenyan electoral commission IT manager who oversaw the country’s computerized voting systems; now, just days before a hotly contested election, his body has been found in the Kikuyu area in Nairobi’s outskirts, and the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission says he was tortured and murdered.
Previous Kenyan elections were plagued by scandals over compromised voting machines. Msando was put in charge of the voting system just months ago after his predecessor was forced out over his refusal to cooperate with independent auditors seeking to certify the election’s integrity.
