premise: He has however expressed concern that referendum committees have not submitted names of agents and is worried that this could open up the process to possible rigging.
  "Even our officers may take sides. The dead might vote. Double voting might take place. That's why we want agents everywhere," said Kivuitu.
  REFERENDUM UNDER DISPUTE
  
  The referendum campaigns have been marked by tribalism, belligerent rhetoric, sporadic violence and the deaths of at least eight people, and is being widely viewed as a referendum on the government and a battle for power between the political elite.
   What caused sporadic violence?
hypothesis: a battle for power between the political elite