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Post-independence elections have perfected art of political bargaining

Voters queue to cast ballots at Moi Suba Girls, Migori.  August 2017. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]

Elections have become part of the Kenyan psyche. The 1957 election, the first for ‘natives’, was among transition elections from colonialism to post-colonialism. Transition elections taught rigging strategies that included massive vote denials. However, it is the recent multi-party elections that have peculiar attractions.

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