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To avert chaos, Jubilee and NASA must play by the election rules

The alarm bells sounded by the EU and the National Cohesion and Integration Commission have brought the issue of the electoral violence into focus again. This week I examine NASA's position that a peaceful election is contingent on the credibility of the election.

There's little clarity on a credible election but we can decipher their view from the court cases they have filed and ongoing debates such as dead voters on the register. My reading of it is that they want a perfect election. Anything less will be a 'sham election' which, we are told, will inevitably lead to chaos.

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