{"id":716450,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/716450/?format=json","text_counter":282,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, for anybody to pretend that the people who came to present were simply talking about backup, all of them were saying that it was possible to have an electronic backup to an electronic system. Secondly, is to just appreciate the history of this country which is replete with electoral theft. Two successive elections have been stolen and it is documented. So, for any person to come and have the pretention that a manual system can back up an electronic one is a person who does not appreciate the sanctity of the votes of the Kenyan people or what a free and fair election is for the stability of this country. The electronic system came to cure the manual. It is a contradiction for the manual system to be said to be the cure to the electronic system. As we move forward to negotiate this Bill, it is important that Senators, regardless of political affiliations, when something is wrong, we must pronounce ourselves to it that it is wrong. Therefore, I urge my colleagues from the Jubilee coalition that this Bill in its manifestation, in its construction, in adherence to the Constitution, the potential of an election that is rigged portrays a potential conflict for this country. If there should be ever a dispute, if we should ever try to amend this Bill, then it must be done through negotiated process matching the similar way that the Joint Select Committee of Parliament decided to negotiate this Bill to ensure everybody was consulted in Parliament and outside Parliament. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I had so much preparedness today on the basis of the fact that we thought we would get ample time to prosecute the minority report but for the purposes of your own knowledge and record, I urge you all to read that Report because it speaks to a few issues that are fundamental. Let me tell Jubilee Government as I end – you know Jubilee is a self-proclaimed digital divide of the political space in Kenya. Just because Jubilee has failed over the last four years is not evidence that technology failed. Therefore, I want those proponents of the idea that technology fails to be sincere that the technology that fails is technology that can be backed, and repeated public opinion, the country watched, the media broadcast these things live and it is a denial for you to pretend that we did not support a backup system that is electronic, that everybody felt that the word complementary was ambiguous, that most of the comments that we received sought that section 44 (5) of the Election Laws (Amendment) Act of 2016 was sufficient to cure the issues of a backup system. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for anybody to come here with interpretations that somebody is going to have---"}