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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Moi",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Kipsiele Towett Moi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will be extremely brief. The whole issue revolves around Clause 44. The issue is on what will happen should the system fail. Clause 44 says:- “The Commission shall put in place a complementary mechanism for identification of voters.” The issue is complementary. What is complementary? When you say “manual”, there are others who understand manual to mean differently. For example, huko kwetu nikujaribu kuvuta bhangi kwa police station. No one wants to hear anything called manual. That is the issue. However, we have heard the term “complementary” from my colleagues who are in Jubilee. Sen. Melly and Sen. Lesuuda have said that “complementary” means and can mean electronic. So, which is which? Do you see? We had hoped that the Committee would have clarified all these issues for us. They say in part of their observations that it is that establishment of a multi-layered system where the primary electoral system should be electronic and a back-up system should also be electronic. Only if it fails then, you go to manual. Do you see the doubts which you are creating here? The issue of a manual back-up is a myth to many of us and many of our constituents. Jubilee have always said that they are digital. That is a fact and we are all part of that. However, we seem to be running away from digital and rushing to analogue. We say and it was said by Chairman Kiprono Kittony of the Chamber of Commerce that Nairobi or Kenya is the hub of technology. It is the Silicon Valley of Africa and yet we are trying to run away from it. What is important is the clarification in the regulation and whether it will be done here and by us. Who will do it? Is it the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), and do we trust them? Those are the issues which we should all understand as we are voting today. Watch my vote."
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