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    "content": "Mr. Chairperson, Sir, when you say, “notwithstanding this section,” it means you are overthrowing the section and supplanting something else. This is what this is doing; meaning that while Section 44 which was drafted after negotiations says that there will be biometric voter registration, electronic voter identification and electronic transmission of results, then you go and say, notwithstanding that, meaning keep away that, the IEBC can then put in place a complementary mechanism for identification of voters and transmission of results. The deficit in this provision is that we have handed a carte blanche to the IEBC. This carte blanche will lead to what we saw in 2013, where after, the first two hours of voting, all the electronic equipment collapsed through human intervention. The voting went on manually. Dead people voted. Ghosts voted. Ballot stuffing took place and we ended up with what we now know. Mr. Chairperson, if you drive a Toyota car, the complement you can give to a wheel of a Toyota car cannot be a tyre of a bicycle. The complement you give to a wheel of a Pajero cannot be a wheel of a motor-cycle. Lawyers like Sen. Murungi will appreciate it. It is ejusdem generis, which he, as a distinguished senior lawyer, knows. If the Committee acted bona fides in this matter, they would have said that you put in place a complementary electronic process, so that we do not give room to IEBC to collapse the system and go manual. When your phone data collapses, the complimentary will be found in a similar electronic. You do not lose your telephone data and go to the old manual record and try to recover it. Whatever is complementing must be of the same nature. We have no problem with complements. However, we have problems of overthrowing the entire electronic system and bringing in something else. There are many people with experience in this country. Our distinguished Sen. (Dr.) G.G. Kariuki has been a victim of election rigging. He knows this very well. You sit pretty thinking that things will work well, but you will be the one wailing on the streets tomorrow saying things have gone wrong. It is an assault on our intellect from a very good friend the Senator of Nyeri County to stand here, look us in the eyes and purport to say that we pass it, we will amend. Why are we passing something that we will come back to amend. If we do not believe in it, we do not believe in it. There is no point in saying, pass it, we will amend it."
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