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    "id": 716266,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kagwe",
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        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for the protection because in the amendment it does not refer anywhere. It is possible that electronic systems, even if you have two of them, can fail at some point. We are being given examples of countries that have got an electronic voting system. What we have in Kenya, in reality as we speak, is not a full electronic system because the counting of votes is not electronic but manual. In the USA where they have got a complete electronic system, I could read for you a litany of failures of the system. In fact, even as we speak, there are cases there about the failure of the system they have got. For example, in Florida in 2000 an electronic voting machine gave Mr. Al Gore a final count of negative 16000 votes. All we are saying is that a system has got flaws. It is not born but made. Therefore, let us not lie to the nation that there are people who want to go back to the manual system when we have already got an electronic one. We have proposed in this amendment some way forward on this matter. Article 83 (3) of the Constitution is clear that you cannot deny a voter the right to vote. Therefore, if at all an electronic process was to fail and you deny a voter the right to feel, you will be acting against the Constitution. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are those who have said that this clause is supposed to create chaos. On the basis of Article 83 (3), you will realize that as a matter of fact, without this clause, there would be chaos. This clause is to prevent chaos and not to cause chaos. I plead with my brothers and sisters on the other side that let us not use a system where we want to bully or intimidate by way of street demonstrations or otherwise; that we are going to change a good law, create a bad law, or we do not change a bad law on grounds that we are going to have chaos in our nation. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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