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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. In the future, when we adopt the real electronic voting system, the Returning Officer will have on him a chip in a laptop and every voter, after voting, the results will show in real time on the worldwide web, www dot something, that, that vote is cast. If you think it will be possible to steal votes in future, then you must belong to the past. It will never happen. It is immoral to steal votes. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is so ugly to see trucks carrying boxes full of votes and guarded by police officers with guns. This is something we, Kenyans, must resist by all means. We are very civilized and we should not encourage practices of yesteryears. We must encourage wireless voting, tallying and counting of votes in the future. Mr. Kajwangâ is about to introduce the third generation identity cards. This card has embedded in it all personal data that anyone can have, including voting. We should use those cards to vote in this Parliament, so that we do away with the manual voting. It is very mechanical. It will be so nice to use those cards because you walk in and the system already knows whether you are in or not. So, manual counting will be a thing of the past. I also want to take the opportunity to congratulate Dr. Khalwale for winning the Ikolomani by-election. He is a gentleman and he deserved to win. I think he will contribute immensely to the development of this country. Finally, I want to just quote the Prime Minister when he once said: âThe coming of electronic voter system in our country is more than a revolution.â With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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