The higher the level of trust and reputation of the electoral process, the higher the acceptability of the leaders that emerges. [...] It is the ful- crum on which the election and voting schedules, the be- haviour of the election officials and observers are spelt out and the module that explains who does what, the time and the accepted procedures. [...] The process of the appointment of the officials by any of the arms of government, usually the executive, and the cor- responding screening by the legislative body must be well spelt out. [...] Trust and Reputation in Nigeria’s Electoral Process… 9 In many cases, especially in developing democracies, the is- sue of who appoints the chairman or leader of the electoral body is suspicious.3 The executive president of the country is always saddled with the responsibilities of appointing the chairman of the electoral body and other key stakehold- ers in the electoral body configurations. [...] The threat of vote buying by the political parties, ballot stuffing by electoral and party officials and the incessant outbreak of election violence due to perceived injustice at the polls or other reasons by the sup- porters of the political parties all contribute to the gradual fall in the level of trust in the electoral process in Nigeria28.
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