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Let's shift focus from IEBC team, streamline all our electoral systems

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For too long now have we put our faith and trust in the hands of a few. Far too many times has the nation been on the edge because of a presidential election. For too many elections have Kenyans stood in line for hours to vote for their president of choice only to be disappointed.

In 2007, we put our hope in individual electoral commissioners. They let us down. We removed them from office. In 2013 the new electoral commissioners took Kenya to an election without a Register of Voters. We removed them hoping this would fix the problem.

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