constitutional violations would be a dereliction of duty and we refuse to accept the invitation to do so however popular the invitation may seem. Therefore, however burdensome, let the majesty of the Constitution reverberate across the lengths and breadths of our motherland; let it bubble from our rivers and oceans; let it boomerang from our hills and mountains; let it serenade our households from the trees; let it sprout from our institutions of learning; let it toll from our sanctums of prayer; and to those, who bear the responsibility of leadership, let it be a constant irritant. [400] Have we in executing our mandate lowered the threshold for proof in presidential elections? Have we made it easy to overturn the popular will of the people? We do not think so. No election is perfect and technology is not perfect either. However, where there is a context in which the two Houses of Parliament jointly prepare a technological roadmap for conduct of elections and insert a clear and simple technological process in Section 39(1C) of the Elections Act, with the sole aim of ensuring a verifiable transmission and declaration of results system, how can this Court close its eyes to an obvious near total negation of that transparent system? [401] In keeping with our pronouncement regarding the burden and standard of proof in election petitions, we are therefore satisfied that the petitioners have discharged the legal burden of proof as to squarely shift it to the 1st and 2nd respondent. We are also of the firm view that having so shifted, the burden has not in turn been discharged by the 1st and 2nd respondent as to raise substantial doubt with regard to the petitioners’ case. [402] For the above reasons, let this Judgment then be read in its proper context; the electoral system in Kenya today was designed to be simple and verifiable. Between 8th August, 2017 and 11th August, 2017, it cannot be said Presidential  Petition  No.  1  of  2017                                                                                                                                                                                                            175  |  P a g e