Being designated "Premier CS" and/or "NASA Pentagon" member is smart politics (hedging). Any outcome will be a win for Weta... but is not rigging-proof. Jubilee is likely choking CORD bases with NIS agents to stop ballot-stuffing while allowing its own bases to stuff ballots. NASA is mostly powerless to 100% eliminate this grassroot (polling station level) cooking... This silent residual "rigging machinery" [sic] is an incumbency advantage.
Robina
First of all, Jubilee has forgotten what they sold to us four years ago is the same thing they are condemning. If anything Musalia Mudavadi is not going for any elective post - as far as I know. Yet ALL Jubilee coalition partners went for elective posts. We can only ignore their noises. They are bereft of logic and sound arguments and even their own propaganda is turning against them as they face defeat.
Secondly, NASA has very clear pro-people policies which will be applied to ease public spending, reduce or if possible eliminate frivolous elections whose purpose is to provide avenues for corruption and grand standing.
By-elections is one such area. NASA is working on a method where the mandate granted to an electee is carefully shared between the sponsoring party and the electee. Thus if a seat becomes vacant then it is the party to replace the member. This is part of a wider reform with a view of considering modern methods of conducting elections to preclude "wasted" votes. All and every vote must count.
If 30% of the people voted for URP and the rest voted for ODM why should the 30% be ignored?
That said, MPs and other elected persons should be free to seek leave from their posts to perform other duties. This is happening in many decent democracies and has helped to cool down politics. Elections are held once in a period and unless under special circumstances - such as recall etc, there should be none.