Kenya’s Odinga claims election system hack caused “massive” vote fraud
By Reuters
09 August 2017 |
12:26 pm
Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga said hackers broke into the election commission's database overnight leading to what he called massive electoral fraud.
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