Many people have attempted to address this subject but Zanzibar has shown you can actually have an independent election commission which can deliver a free, fair and verifiable elections as it did in 2015 before Jecha obeyed his Mainland bosses and illegally nullified the elections
The ruling party appoints the chairperson and the opposition appoints the vice chairperson with the appointment of the former if mainlander the latter ought to appoint from the Zenjiand, and the vice versa holds plenty of mashiko
The requirements of judges or lawyers as qualifications for NEC heads ought to be scrapped as irrelevant and most misleading: the judge of our elections is the electorate and others are impostors let alone presidential appointees masquerading as judges of our elections
NEC ought to employ all permanent and temporary staff and own secretariat without political interference then thereafter we can begin dreaming of free, fair and verifiable elections
NEC ought to have independent budget approved by the Parliament and permanent offices all over the country. No more DEDs, no more DSOs, no more RSOs to steal our votes
The scripture says in the multitude of counsellors there is peace and prosperity but whoever hates dissent hates development. Even God encourages alternative views so why can't we?
But at least the universities were not as corrupted as we see them today where dons are outwitting themselves to praise CCM for a piece of a cake in a form of presidential appointments