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"content": "register, amongst others. Some of the activities in the plan include compilation of the voter register by December, 2012. The IEBC is said to commence voter registration electronically from 1st November, 2012. I was very pleased when we had a workshop with the IEBC in Mombasa. The Chairman, Mr. Isaak Hassan, gave us the assurance that already, the equipment has started arriving in the country. This will facilitate training and by the end of this month, all the kits will be here and they will commence voter registration on 1st November, 2013. The other activity is the submission of party nomination rules by 17th October, 2012, submission of party symbols by independent candidates. This has to be done by 27th December, 2012. Eventually, we will have the IEBC nominations on 17th January, 2013. Subsequently, they are preparing for the presidential run- off. The contract for the supply of the BVR kits was signed on Monday, 24th September, 2012. The contract is a government to government arrangement and, therefore, the parties involved are the Government of Kenya and the Government of Canada. The Government of Kenya was represented by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, while the Canadian Government was represented by the Canadian Commercial Corporation. These were the parties that executed the contracted. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the BVR kits that will be supplied, which have already started arriving in the country, will be pre-loaded, pre-configured and tested at the factory before delivery. On arrival, the kits will be ready for use, with minimal local configuration to ensure that they are only used for pre-authorised purposes. The training of trainers, registration officers and technical support personnel will be conducted using the 5,000 advance kits that I have talked about. The training will take 11 days. The IEBC has completed the mapping of registration centres and is in the process of compiling the list, in preparation for gazettement. Mapping of the registration centres is an elaborate process that has required consultations with various stakeholders, including registered political parties. The IEBC will shortly be gazetting the results of this exercise. This will fully detail the number of registration centres per constituency, including Wajir South of hon. Sirat. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to assure this House that the methodology and ease with which voters will cast their ballot has been given every keen attention by the IEBC. You may recall that the IEBC held mock elections early this year in Kajiado and Malindi, although there was an attempt by remnants of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) to disrupt the exercise in Malindi. This is a matter of concern which we continue to address. The tests in both Kajiado and Malindi provided useful insights into the voting process of all cadres of voters - the illiterate, semi-literate and the literate, amongst other categories. Hon. Sirat asked how long a voter would take to cast his ballots. This exercise has confirmed that it will take any voter, including an illiterate voter, between six and ten minutes. This time round, voters will not be required to carry the voter’s cards with them. All they need is an identity card for them to be identified and then they will cast their ballots. They will be casting six ballots. So, it will take time because they will have to vote six times, unlike what they had been doing previously - casting only three votes, for the President, the Member of Parliament and Councillor. They now have to also vote for the Senator, the Governor as well as the Women Representative. So, there will be six"
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