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It is trite law that in dealing with election petitions where irregularities or breaches of law are made, the courts would have to deal with both the qualitative as well as the quantitative aspects of the petition. In the Raila petition, the court appears to have only considered certain qualitative aspects without showing how the failure to adhere to the law affected the quantitative regime of the petition.
The voters should be in the centre of any election contest. They are the ones who have to exercise their sovereign right to vote and expect those votes to be captured as distributed amongst the contestants.
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