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    "content": "I have been to Spain where a company has been outsourced to conduct the mayoral elections in London. Those results are out within one hour of voting. Within one hour of closing the voting, the results are out. Because this company can be outsourced, we do not even need to train anybody. The electoral Commission just needs to say that they will outsource those services and they will come here and register people in any wild place just by putting the thumb print. You do not even need to put your name. Of course, you can put your name, your ID number and so on, but you do not need that. You just need to put your thumb print and on the election day, you see the names of the political parties and you just put your thumb print on the face of Kajwang’ and that is a vote and nobody else would vote again using that thumb print because there is only one thumb print to the vote. We will be watching as the election goes on; “now it is one million votes, 1.2 million votes, 1.3 million votes and so on” and everybody will know the results by the end of the election. This is something that can be done and we do not even need to buy this system. The electoral Commission – and it does not need the Government – can make the decision that they will outsource the company that will register our voters, keep the data base and conduct the elections and their officials will only be there to supervise to ensure that it is done correctly and accurately. This can be done. They did it in Nigeria recently. They outsourced those services. I have already said that they have outsourced it twice in the mayoral elections of London. Every part of the world is now going outsourcing because you do not have to own everything because it is not even necessary. We can do this very easily and nobody will be able to steal an election. We will not even talk about stealing elections. In fact, there will be no petitions. If there is any petition, it will not be on counting because you would have seen it as you were being defeated. So, you do not need to make noise. The only noise you can make is that somebody bribed, but it is up to you to prove bribery at night and in the wrong places. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the problem was on this thing called, “tallying”. We should not even have had a problem. In fact, they provided for faxes where you would fax the results from every counting station. Those faxes, somehow, did not work or they were made not to work. They said: “Although we received the fax, we must see the original Form 16A.” Which of this form is called “original Form 16A” and yet you have already faxed it and things are tallying? It was intended that somebody had to steal this election. Of course, Kenya does not want to go to war. Kenya does not like what we saw in 2007 and 2008. So, we must make up our mind. Today, the electoral Commission should tell us that they will not print voters’ cards. This is because if it is electronic, there is no need to print all those books. It is more expensive to print those books than to register people electronically and voting electronically. So, this election will be cheaper. We do not even need to buy the big equipment because somebody will bring it, install it, register and ensure that we see it everywhere and there will be no quarrel. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support this Motion."
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