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    "content": "Isaak Hassan and his group. Nobody is ready to ask for framing charges against them on what they did or failed to do. Some are guilty by association while others are innocent, but the point is that we want to go to the next election with the country in totality, whether you are Jubilee, CORD or some undefined force among the many that are coming up. We want to go to the election with everybody knowing that the race may belong to the strong but everybody must have a fair start and the referee must be fair throughout the race. You can borrow a leaf from what happened to my son Ezekiel Kemboi, a great runner with gold medals along the chain. When he stepped outside the lane, they took away even the medal they had given him. That is the painful truth about justice. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to urge the House and the country to embrace the product of this Committee. Regarding the last elections and the manner in which the Supreme Court handled the petition, even the judges themselves came to this Committee to own up that there was something that needed to be changed. Let us start with the register. How can you go to elections with an electoral body that does know which register they are using? That is why I support that there should be one indivisible register of voters, so that when Sen. Murkomen wants to know whether he is a voter in Elgeyo- Marakwet or not, he just logs in and finds where he is. Nobody will tell you that you are not in the master register but you are in the green book or you are not in the green book but in the black book or you are not in the black book but in the red book. That is a recipe for chaos. So, reorganizing the register alone is critical. The other day, I brought an issue here. I said that in my county, we bury an average of almost 2,000 people a month. These are adults and voters but who edits the people who die out of the voters roll? There is nobody and you end up with dead people voting and juveniles on the voters roll. So, the idea of auditing the register is crucial. I want to urge this country to borrow a leaf from what happened in Nigeria. In Nigeria, before the last elections, there was a serious dispute as to the integrity of the voters roll. They hired a competent manpower company to audit the voters roll and you cannot believe that they found 10 million dead voters in the register and they had to be edited out. I am sure we have a couple of hundreds of thousands of dead voters in our register. We need to audit that and come up with a register where we synchronise the registration of births and deaths and registration of persons. When you die and it is registered that so and so has passed on, that registration alone should be reflected in the IEBC register and your name is erased from the voters roll. You do not have to go to any other length. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir the most important thing is the manner in which results are handled. The Committee has said that counting of votes will be done at the polling station and then electronically transmitted to the constituency headquarters and from there, directly to the national tallying centre. That is editing or cutting out fraudsters like what we saw; the mischief that was played in the last elections by the National The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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