Gov cannot get loyal 50K officer to deploy in 50k police stations to manipulate or intimidate votes. Just not possible.
Maina Kia rulling that makes polling station - final - has ended the rigging.
Jubilee did not rig. They beat Raila by huge margins - more than a million in both cases.
UDA strategy is simple - get 50 percent plus one - by retaining Jubilee coalition - and replacing any attrition in mt kenya - with turkanas, coast, western and such - assuming Uhuru will go nuts until the wire.
I think it very likely Uhuru will cut a deal with Ruto - because Kenyatta Empire cannot risk a Raila and cannot risk Ruto winning before they reconcile.
Obviously it important for Raila to run - so Ruto has to make sure he runs - by going slow on him.
Ruto was part of ODM that won in 2007 and were rigged.
So UDA strategy is huge margin - 2M - despite losing huge Jubilee chunk. The contra is it easier for Moses Kurias to guard one by-election from machinery - nationwide it everyone for himself. It is easier to cheat in general than by-election obviously.
Ruto has never run without GoK - including 2013. Raila has never had machinery. IEBC incompetence is bad for Ruto... especially lack of provisional. Having your own provisional results from Chirchir tallying center - maybe good for evidence - the other side will have their own matching IEBC.