The first thing any good administrator does is to not give a chance to have any friction. Fix the voting process, make it fool proof. Detractors like me will abandon any cause once we know we are free to choose someone and that our vote counts. If you keep giving ammunition to your rivals by fudging numbers, holding off meaningful measures to eradicate voter fraud and then using state machinery to uplift personal political parties own gains, some thing will give way. Granted you can not make everyone happy and lots of these protestors have their ulterior motives. Thats why you need to thin the herd by doing the right thing, otherwise whats coming will be worse than these political rallies. What could happen is more scary and can not be reversed.