Integrity of electoral process and results must be guarded jealously

Voters queue to cast their ballots at the NSSF grounds in Nairobi, 2017. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

A process and its outcomes are as good as the people managing it. The sanctity of electoral inputs, processes and products must be jealously guarded.

If the inputs and processes are mediocre, then the outputs will be nothing short of mediocrity; below par in every desirable statistic. Despite the amount of deployed resources, persons and institutions with consistently questionable integrity will churn out questionable results.