2002 was manual, 2005, 2010 and many manual elections have been found to be free, fair and credible. A rigged election just smells. There is no way to hide the stench.2013 was not rigged. I believe this election will not be rigged. But if it will be rigged we will know...because it not easy to pull rigging in a free democratic nation like kenya...with free media, thousands of observers, party agents, social media, mobile communication.
Personally I believe we will know the winner after 2% of the votes is in - electronic transmission - if they come in randomly from all over the country.That would be exit poll. 2013 we did 2%--30% - and after 100% - the percentages should never change.
The idiots in CORD and KANU (Kericho) thought it was some geometric progression rigging - that increased Uhuru votes - while not realizing that if results are randomly coming in - they will reflect the total voting population - basic stats 101- unless the distribution is not normal.
We will know the results of election by 9pm on 8th.
If
1. the elections are held electronically as envisaged with the 98% being identified by EVIDs;
2. There is no breakdown or unexplained outages of the results / results system
3. no "manual option" is employed at any given stage
4. no KDF, GSU, Police or other forces are deployed to suppress turnout (as envisaged by Operation Matiangi)
I will accept any result.
I am not bothered about the extra ballots which are already at Embakasi. The dangers of remote voting are reduced considerably. The brines Consolata ate to arrange for certificates for losers is now a Jubilee
problem; The NIS is aware that any rigging will plunge the country inn to a decade long crisis ( I hope Kameru has stopped his side of the plan).
I believe they are encouraged by the tightening of the polls to let go of some of the plans.
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