Context is crucial;

So who decides if an election is free and fair?

Certainly not a Kenyan politician who perennially claims he/she has been rigged out whenever they lose.

Reflect on this calmly and objectively:

Ever since you came of age, all across the Country - upcountry and Nairobi alike, in all elective positions – MCA/Concillor, MP, President - how many politicians have lost and not claimed that they were robbed of their win!

Matiba did it, Kibaki did it. Even Kalonzo claimed his votes were stolen! But they never took us to war.

[quote=hardwood]So ambitho of infotrak conducted a poll in only 31 counties, mostly nasa, to give baba a 1% lead over ohuru. Meanwhile ipsos sampled all 47 counties and put ohuru ahead. Why should anyone with a brain take ambithos stupid poll seriously?

http://www.the-star.co.k...-raila-support_c1602604[/quote]

Baba has poisoned the country and therefore no one would want to have their truck out or goods being transported over the election period. If odm could not accept the results of their own party elections, nominations that they themselves conducted, where losers were declared winners, why do we expect them to accept results of any election?

Its a coin toss, Uhuruto's body language and frantic campaigning says it all

Thank you @Obi. All the talk about violence and nusu-mkate is coming from Jubilee. To be honest, I am terrified. There is nothing as dangerous as a looting regime staring at a defeat.

NASA is pushing for credible elections. But Jubilee is pushing for peace. Who is fighting ????

We can draw lessons from 2007. There were violent incidents in Kisumu a day or two before elections targeted at APs. Were they innocent ? Hell NO. Were APs mobilized to act as PNU agents ? YES. This was confirmed by none other than the then commandant of the Embakasi AP training school. He had to seek assylum in Germany.

Was there violence on 27th ? 28th ? 29th ? 30th ?. Violence broke out on a large scale on 31st after ECK botched the election results.

When NASA insisted on an exclusive electronic voter identification, Jubilee and IEBC said no. We must have a manual back-up as well. Yet this would check against suspicious turnouts even in NASA zones.

I can say without fear Jubilee is scared of a credible election. And they should be.

Don't preach peace. Nobody is fighting. Let us have a clean electoral process and everyone will be fine.

Who cheated you that it worked in ghana and nigeria?

http://mgafrica.com/arti...nd-why-it-doesnt-matter

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What’s particularly illuminating is that more mature democracies are moving away from electronic voting systems, mainly because of their vulnerability to glitches, and their opacity - the inability to conclusively verify that electronic votes or the software on machines have not been manipulated.

The broader, systemic problem, however is that in much of Africa, the whole political system is perceived as a winner-takes-all route to quick riches, hence the viciously cutthroat nature of elections.

In such a toxic, polarised environment, even if all the biometric readers failed, you would still be assured of a winner.

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