During nominations, many women with good manifestos for their voters, lose nomination even before the voting process has began.

Stories have been told over and over again of political party propaganda that locks women out of a fair election process. Just to mention a few... In 2002

* Narrating her experience during a post-elections meeting organised by ECWD to find our what went wrong, Beatrice Kanini described how she won and then lost within 24hrs of the NARC nominations of the Gachoka parliamentary seat
* Abigael Nyanduko in her attempt to capture the Kitutu Masaba seat told of how the nomination venue was switched without her knowledge giving her competitor outright victory
* Mary Okumu who was vying for the Embakasi Parliamentary seat said she paid a non-refundable nomination fee only to be told that her opponent had been cleared. She then had to moved to another party and pay nomination fees once more

How can we counter this propaganda so that come 2008, we are not narrating these same stories of failed ambitions and frustration?