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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, again, the manual voting system is very tiring and time consuming. In 2007, the then Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya complained that his officers had all switched off their phones and that he could not get results from them. If we were, so to speak, in an electronic voting system, he would not need to know where his officers were at any given time because the results would be available electronically. So, in a nutshell, this is a God given opportunity to this country to bring in the computer age into voting so that the representatives we have are the true representatives that have been elected by the people. Most times, you will see that more than 60 per cent of Members who sit in this House come here not necessarily by the ballot but by the whims of those who support them, probably party heads. They decide that they want to vote for so and so because the party leader has said that or the queuing system has said so. However, individually, once you put your thumb on the ballot paper and elect the person you want to elect, that goes automatically to the voting station level, the tallying center level and to the national level. I strongly support."
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