With national security agencies, human rights organisations and businesses deep in scenario planning, what could we do to de-risk electoral politics? Violence and disinformation, late or manipulated recruitment of partisan commissioners, Treasury underfunding and digital technology manipulation or failure are among high risks. While the political class scratches for legal arguments and Sh14 billion for a one-day referendum, the electoral commission begs for Sh80 billion to manage the next five years. Encouragingly, the Campaign Financing Act (2013) now requires all political parties and candidates to publish their accounts and account managers by June 2022. However, most of the damage will be done at the primaries scheduled between now and June 2022.

Source: Standard Digital July 10, 2021 15:00 UTC