I Don't Have Any Social Media Account- Juliana Cherera
On Wednesday, August 17, she was purported to have told Kenyans to desist from uncovering old photos of her in previous positions and linking them to the fallout over the presidential election results.
Marvin Chege 
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Vice-Chairperson, Juliana Cherera, on Thursday, August 18 denounced her presence on social media.
A variety of Facebook and Twitter accounts, including that one which was thought to be actually hers, have been sharing purported messages amidst a split in the electoral commission pitting Chairman Wafula Chebukati and two commissioners, against Cherera with three other commissioners.
The two factions have been colliding with each other after Cherera's side rejected the results that declared William Ruto as the president-elect.
A phone with Facebook and Twitter accounts. /THE GUARDIAN
While disowning the accounts, Cherera noted that she has since taken action against them.
“I am not on social media. All those Facebook/Twitter accounts are fake and I have reported them to the relevant organizations/authorities,” Cherera told Citizen Digital.
On Wednesday, August 17, she was purported to have told Kenyans to desist from uncovering old photos of her in previous positions and linking them to the fallout over the presidential election results.
This is after they unleashed past photos of her with Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition party presidential candidate Raila Odinga and Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho.
The pictures, which insinuated Cherera’s closeness to Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition party leaders, drew sharp reactions from the Kenya Kwanza alliance team, Azimio's rivals.
To make matters worse, a video did rounds on the internet which compared Cherera's address on Tuesday, August 16 to Raila's parallel address at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) and similar sentiments were uttered by both.
"My colleagues and I have indicated irregularities in the Presidential tallying process.
"It is not fair to personalize issues. Photos of me discharging duties in my previous position have nothing to do with the facts we have laid bare," she wrote.
Cherera is yet to respond to the mathematical blunder that caused a frenzy across the country where she claimed that Chebukati gave them a total of 100.01 per cent, meaning that 0.01 per cent was translating to around 142,000 votes.
But multiple fact-checkers across various local media houses, including Viral Tea, had dismissed her findings which actually turned out to be 1,421.3137 votes.
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) became the latest organization to criticise her calculations. In its report on the just-concluded elections, the institute established by the US Congress in 1984 stated that the error in percentages as claimed by commissioners could not change the results significantly.
"The supposed errors the commissioners identify are the result of rounding percentages to two decimal places, rather than three (or more), and, in any case, would not change the outcome.
"Poor mathematics aside, this public display of division in the Commission only fuels doubts about the electoral commission’s competence," read the report in a part.
Francis Wanderi, Justus Nyangaya, and Irene Masit had joined Cherera in dismissing the results while Abdi Guliye and Boya Molu sided with Chebukati.
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