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NAIROBI: Old Nyati painted the following scenario for us. An elections commission in country X is suspected - rightly or wrongly – by half the population of having been biased in the previous election. Investigations have revealed the shenanigans and cynicism within the commission that accompanied acquisition of faulty elections equipment. Then a foreign court convicts its citizens for bribing or attempting to bribe the commission’s officials. At the same time, the head of the elections commission utters words that show bias against the losing side in the election. And then, when the losing side presents the body with one million signatures required to trigger the process of changing sections of the Constitution, it plays a cat-and-mouse game, temporising by giving this or that reason.
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