State the factors that may interfere with free and fair elections in Kenya.
Answer:
- Pre and post-election violence.
- Corruption among candidates and supporters.
- Inefficiency supply and distribution of election materials.
- Extreme weather conditions e.g. heavy rains on a polling day.
- Incompetent election officials.
- Transport and communication challenges that may lead to inaccessibility of polling stations.
- The use of negative propaganda by candidates and their supporters.
- Ethnic and party loyalties/zoning of regions as belonging to particular parties or candidates.
- Gender insensitivity.