Electoral commission and Jubilee are two sides of the same coin

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In a rejoinder to an article I had written on the IEBC in this paper a few weeks ago, Issack Hassan, the chairman of the IEBC, contended in the pages of this paper on May 25 that I had raised issues that were unwarranted. Having published what he called “results” of the March 2013 elections more than a year later, Mr Hassan proudly announced that this was an earth shaking achievement which has not been done elsewhere. Rather than castigate him, Kenyans should actually be grateful that they now have what it takes to manage elections: verifiable results. Hassan forgets that India, with more than 700 million voters, takes less than a month to count and announce results; and no petitions follow unlike our experience with Hassan managed elections.