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    "content": "Regarding the question of transmission of elections, the Supreme Court abdicated the responsibility in the presidential petitions by not making a pronouncement as to whether our elections should be either electronic or manual. They decided to take the middle path. They made a finding on when the register should be issued, when it should be verified and what it should have. As a result, we have an issue about whether or not there is indeed one, two, three or four registers. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Kriegler Recommendations that I have read were largely ignored in the formulation of the IEBC and the Act itself. These are some of the issues that will have to be inquired into detail. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I can see that deliberately the recommendations under (c) suggests that--- and I have proposed that elections must be held in August. I am one of those people who believe that if we work day and night and put political but not legal will because legal mechanisms exists, elections can be held and we can do whatever it takes to have an elections. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the words “efficient, simple, accurate, verifiable, secure, accountable and transparent” are very simple words. Accurate is accurate. The result that is transmitted from one polling station to Nairobi should not differ. Therefore, I will recommend a formula where the verification is done at the polling centres to avoid the changing of figures when results are being transmitted. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we know what we need to do, how to do it and who can do it but we deliberately as a country choose methods that we know will favour us. I hope this Committee understands that we hold the will of Kenyans and the security of this country in our hands. Therefore, this is the time our oath will apply most because the country will call upon us as Members of this Committee to abide to our oath the Constitution. I know we will be pushed around, there will be phone calls and we will be monitored by everybody. They will want to know who we talk to and what we think etcetera. We want to warn everybody that we will do what we need to do. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the only thing I am happy about, because I do not trust a lot of things that people are doing out there, is the fact that we will have seven Senators sitting in that Committee. If there is one time we have stood up to be counted, this is the time. I have been wondering where we have been and this is the only time. That is the reason that the seven of us must offer direction. We are the 007 of this country. Therefore, each one of us, irrespective of the coalition we serve, will be called upon to perform a national duty. I wish we will wear the national flag. I thank you."
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