Title: Legitimising Electoral Process: The Role of Kenya Domestic Observation Programme (K-DOP) in Kenya’s 2002 General Election
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LEGITIMISING ELECTORAL PROCESS
The Role of Kenya Domestic Observation Programme
(K-DOP)* in Kenya's 2002 General Elections
By
Wole Olaleye* *
Wole Olaleye is a researcher at the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa (EISA)
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INTRODUCTION
The past two decades have seen a movement in Africa from authoritarian regimes
toward popular democracy through electoral rule. Local and international election
observation is now a common practice in almost all elections that take place on the
continent. Elections must be free, fair and meaningful and must be perceived to ..