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    "content": "resources. Suffice to say that the registration officers in every constituency do not have funds. Let us agree that there is a crisis in this country which has been caused by the fact that the National Assembly has thought it fit not to give the IEBC the money to do the work that they are supposed to do. On Sen. Keter’s question, it is not true that all by-elections have been done manually. In my own by-election, it was done electronically to prove, in fact, that these kits should not have failed, in the first place. So, in terms of preparedness, I am not sure whether this equipment is not working because I have said it worked extremely well in my by-election. It did so during Memusi’s and Sen. Wetangula’s by-election. So, the only thing that we want to find out is whether or not there will be another failure which is not human. Sen. Billow, this is something that, Mr. Speaker, Sir, you ought to intervene on our behalf. There is an Elections (Amendment) Bill which is before the National Assembly and it will affect Senators in terms of qualifications and so on. Therefore, in terms of the amendments proposed by Sen. Billow, unless you can stamp authority under Article 110, that Bill will not come to this House. I have seen the draft and they have said, like they have before in their normal broken record that, that Bill does not concern counties. Therefore, it will not come here until you exercise the authority of the robes you are wearing. Sen. G.G. Kariuki has suggested that we call the IEBC, I would suggest that we collect this information and then we can interrogate them when all the information is here, so that we do not have a back and forth like we have done in the case of Sen. Musila where he asked about the cash transfer and it has taken more than three months to get the statement."
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