Going by 2022
1) IEBC needs to get 7-9 commissioners - and the secretariat - need to procure voting gadgets and all the related software btw now - to be ready for mass registration. If not we will continue to use Raila's french tools (Raila later disowned his guys).
The boundary review that was due after 10yrs is now out of question. Soon changing IEBC systems will be out of the question.
2) Mass voter registration - mid-January till mid-February ( a month). This is where parties need to mobilize. It's the election before the election.
3) Party nomination starts from Feb till May - with disputes being resolved around then. This where most of the election for Mps, governors and name it are won - so candidates should be out now campaigning.
4) Official campaign for 3 months of mid-May, June, and July - with the election set on 22nd August.
Btw now and January - parties need to set up structures and rules for nominations, register their party members, fundraise, and prepare.
But with COVID-19 restrictions likely to extend, the unpreparedness of IEBC, Uhuru and Raila focus on a dead BBI project, and the nascent dictator Matiangi distrungled - we are setting our selves for 2007/2008 civil war.